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Python
About a year ago I was surfing the web, and I noticed a reference to a curious programming
language called "Python" (as in "Monty Python's Flying Circus"). This lead me to
www.python.org, the home of Python on the web.
In many ways, the language I found was the answer to questions I hadn't even asked yet.
Python is a scripting language, in a similar vein to Perl. Scripting languages are
quicker to write programs in than a compiled language such as C++, or Java, but
are more powerful than Window's "batch" files, or the "bash scripts" of Unix/Linux.
Where as Larry Wall's philosophy with designing Perl was to afford maximum flexibility
to the programmer, Guido van Rossum, Python's creator, designed a more structured and
well ordered language that did restrain the programmer, so that others might
have a hope at understanding their source code (often a problem with Perl programs).
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