Tim Peters

Tim Peters, the influential Python core developer best known for creating the Timsort sorting algorithm and writing 'The Zen of Python', has died at 74, according to an announcement on the official Python discussion forum. Programmers worldwide are sharing tributes, recalling his decades of contributions to the language, his CPython work and his famously clear writing about software design.

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