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Yep. Ruby came from Japan, Ruby on Rails came from Denmark. Guido van Rossum is from Netherlands. Rasmus Lerdorf if Danish-Canadian. What's it about Danes and languages? :)

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The Netherlands is Dutch, not Danish. And he's Dutch-American now (and Python was designed in the US).

I thought Python was designed at the CWI in Amsterdam. At least that's what Guido's linkedin says.

I guess there's a little bit of both. Through Python 1.2 was with CWI. US after that [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

Since we're making lists:

Java is Canadian. APL and J are Canadian. R is from New Zealand. Go is partly Canadian. Pascal and Modula-2 are Swiss. Scala is Swiss too. Lua is Brazilian. Ocaml is French.

(Blogpost author/submitter here.)

A small objection: Java came out of Sun, a Californian company. It would seem to me to be as American as Solaris, NeWS, SMF or vi. No?

Honestly, I'm a Canadian. We're much like Americans when it comes to software. A little bit less of a offensive security community but for almost everything else it's pretty even.

Prolog and Ada are also French.

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