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drawkbox
This shows the dedication to projects and what it takes to make a language. Guido was pretty much alone for 5+ years early on in Python with Jack of MacPython downstream until at least '95 '96. Guido put in 5+ years not even knowing where Python would go just that it needed to be.

https://vimeo.com/1093745

bjwbell
Interesting. I wonder with github today projects gain contributors significantly earlier, since doing a PR on github is soo much easier than contributing to a project in the days before github.
escherize
This is from the UCDavis vidi lab [1]. It is a group of software engineers and researchers who work on scientific visualizations like op.

1. http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/