Python

What is it?

  • A freely available interpreted object-oriented scripting language.
  • Often compared to Tcl and Perl, but it has a much different flavor.
  • And a lot of people think it's pretty cool.

History

  • Developed by Guido van Rossum in early 1990's.
  • Named after Monty Python.
  • Influences include ABC, Modula-2, Lisp, C, and shell scripting.

Availability

<<< O'Reilly OSCON 2000, Introduction to Python, Slide 4
July 17, 2000, beazley@cs.uchicago.edu
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