Python
general-purpose programming language
Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990.
Quotes
edit- And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?
- Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python
- As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.
- Peter Norvig, August 2000, on comp.lang.functional
- Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.
- Steve Holden, June 2005, on comp.lang.python
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