Original author(s) | Guido van Rossum[1][2] |
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Developer(s) | Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) |
Initial release | August 1995 |
Preview release | 0.6
/ 1 April 1999 |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Type | Web browser |
License | Free software license[3] |
Website | grail |
Grail was a free web browser written in the Python programming language. It is open-source, meaning the source code is freely available. Development started in August 1995, with the first version (0.2) being released in November 1995.[4] The last version (0.6) was released on April 1, 1999.
Unlike other web browsers of the time, web pages can use Python code in a similar way to JavaScript code.[5][6]
It is thought Grail was named after Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a film by British comedy group Monty Python, similar to how Python was named after Monty Python.