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PYTHON, the OO powerhouse| Category | | | Summary | PYTHON, the multi-paradigm object-oriented powerhouse prototyping language.
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| | Body | "Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?"
- Mark Jackson, 1998
"It's highly arguable if Python is "better" than C#, but from a control-your-own-destiny angle, Python is a complete slam dunk. Python works well on *nix, Java, .NET and Mac OS X. It's open source. It's sane. But I won't argue it's fast. It's usually just not so slow you care."
- Jonathan Rentzsch
Python first sprung to life in the early 1990s and was designed by Guido van Rossum, a student from the Netherlands, as a successor to the ABC programming language.
Unlike Perl, Scheme, or Java, Python presents to its developers a programming language of remarkable power and very clear syntax. Its basis is a general set of modules, exceptions, classes, high-level dynamic data, and dynamic typing. Because it will run on *Nix, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and almost any other platform, Python is one of the few languages that is powerful and portable.
Although Python is considered by many to be a 'scripting' language (rather than a programming language), it has been utilized far more often than one might expect. Python has been used to develop several large-scale projects including SourceForge, Mnet, and BitTorrent. It is also used quite extensively by Google. Its success in applications such as these have qualified it as more of a dynamic programming language than a scripting language.
In closing, as the developers say, Python is an agile language that makes it easy to get your program working. This makes Python ideal for prototype development and other ad-hoc programming tasks without compromising maintainability. Add it to your list of languages to learn today!
For more information on Python:
www.python.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language
http://python.oreilly.com/
http://hetland.org/python/
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