2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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Python
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/pi:thon/ In the words of its author, the other scripting language (other
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than Perl , that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well
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thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl
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grubby and exiguous. Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define
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logical structure by indentation, objecting that this harks back to the
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horrible old fixed-field languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with
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Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux it's the
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smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of
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its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger
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community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at
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http://www.python.org. See also Guido , BDFL.
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