Friday 20 May 2011

Python - History

Python was conceived in the late 1980 and its implementation was started in December 1989  by Guido van Rossum. Van Rossum is Python's principal author, and his continuing central role in deciding the direction of Python is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community, Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL).


Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major new features including a full garbage collector and support for Unicode.  Python 3.0 (also known as Python 3000 or py3k), a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on 3 December 2008 after a long period of testing. Many of its major features have been back ported to the backwards-compatible Python 2.6 and 2.7. Python has twice been awarded as TIOBE Programming Language of the Year (2007, 2010), which is given to the language with the greatest growth in popularity over the course of the year (as measured by the TIOBE index).


Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python is free to use, even for commercial products, because of its OSI-approved open source license


Unlike languages like C/C++/Java, Python is extremely friendly to beginners. It is also a modern, powerful general purpose programming language used by companies and research institutions all over the world to solve complex computing problems.

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