History of Python
Python is a widely-used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It was
initially designed by Guido van Rossum in 1991 and developed by Python Software
Foundation.
It was mainly developed for emphasis on code readability, and its syntax allows
programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
In the late 1980s, history was about to be written. It was that time when working on
Python started. Soon after that, Guido Van Rossum began doing its application-
based work in December of 1989 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) which is
situated in the Netherlands.
It was started firstly as a hobby project because he was looking for an interesting
project to keep him occupied during Christmas. The programming language in which
Python is said to have succeeded is ABC Programming Language, which had
interfacing with the Amoeba Operating System and had the feature of exception
handling. He had already helped to create ABC earlier in his career and he had seen
some issues with ABC but liked most of the features. After that what he did was
really very clever.
He had taken the syntax of ABC, and some of its good features. It came with a lot of
complaints too, so he fixed those issues completely and had created a good scripting
language that had removed all the flaws.
The inspiration for the name came from BBC’s TV Show – ‘Monty Python’s Flying
Circus’, as he was a big fan of the TV show and also he wanted a short, unique and
slightly mysterious name for his invention and hence he named it Python!
The language was finally released in 1991. When it was released, it used a lot fewer
codes to express the concepts, when we compare it with Java, C++ & C.
For various purposes such as developing, scripting, generation, and software testing,
this language is utilized. Due to its elegance and simplicity, top technology
organizations like Dropbox, Google, Quora, Mozilla, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcomm,
IBM, and Cisco have implemented Python.
, Python Features
Python provides many useful features which make it popular and valuable from
the other programming languages. It supports object-oriented programming,
procedural programming approaches and provides dynamic memory allocation.
We have listed below a few essential features.
1) Easy to Learn and Use
Python is easy to learn as compared to other programming languages. Its syntax
is straightforward and much the same as the English language. There is no use of
the semicolon or curly-bracket, the indentation defines the code block. It is the
recommended programming language for beginners.
2) Expressive Language
Python can perform complex tasks using a few lines of code. A simple example,
the hello world program you simply type print("Hello World"). It will take only
one line to execute, while Java or C takes multiple lines.
3) Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted language; it means the Python program is executed one
line at a time. The advantage of being interpreted language, it makes debugging
easy and portable.
4) Cross-platform Language
Python can run equally on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, and
Macintosh, etc. So, we can say that Python is a portable language. It enables
programmers to develop the software for several competing platforms by writing
a program only once.
5) Free and Open Source
Python is freely available for everyone. It is freely available on its official
website www.python.org
. It has a large community across the world that is dedicatedly working towards make new python
modules and functions. Anyone can contribute to the Python community. The open-source means,
"Anyone can download its source code without paying any penny."
6) Object-Oriented Language
Python supports object-oriented language and concepts of classes and objects
come into existence. It supports inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation,
etc. The object-oriented procedure helps to programmer to write reusable code
and develop applications in less code.
Python is a widely-used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It was
initially designed by Guido van Rossum in 1991 and developed by Python Software
Foundation.
It was mainly developed for emphasis on code readability, and its syntax allows
programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code.
In the late 1980s, history was about to be written. It was that time when working on
Python started. Soon after that, Guido Van Rossum began doing its application-
based work in December of 1989 at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) which is
situated in the Netherlands.
It was started firstly as a hobby project because he was looking for an interesting
project to keep him occupied during Christmas. The programming language in which
Python is said to have succeeded is ABC Programming Language, which had
interfacing with the Amoeba Operating System and had the feature of exception
handling. He had already helped to create ABC earlier in his career and he had seen
some issues with ABC but liked most of the features. After that what he did was
really very clever.
He had taken the syntax of ABC, and some of its good features. It came with a lot of
complaints too, so he fixed those issues completely and had created a good scripting
language that had removed all the flaws.
The inspiration for the name came from BBC’s TV Show – ‘Monty Python’s Flying
Circus’, as he was a big fan of the TV show and also he wanted a short, unique and
slightly mysterious name for his invention and hence he named it Python!
The language was finally released in 1991. When it was released, it used a lot fewer
codes to express the concepts, when we compare it with Java, C++ & C.
For various purposes such as developing, scripting, generation, and software testing,
this language is utilized. Due to its elegance and simplicity, top technology
organizations like Dropbox, Google, Quora, Mozilla, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcomm,
IBM, and Cisco have implemented Python.
, Python Features
Python provides many useful features which make it popular and valuable from
the other programming languages. It supports object-oriented programming,
procedural programming approaches and provides dynamic memory allocation.
We have listed below a few essential features.
1) Easy to Learn and Use
Python is easy to learn as compared to other programming languages. Its syntax
is straightforward and much the same as the English language. There is no use of
the semicolon or curly-bracket, the indentation defines the code block. It is the
recommended programming language for beginners.
2) Expressive Language
Python can perform complex tasks using a few lines of code. A simple example,
the hello world program you simply type print("Hello World"). It will take only
one line to execute, while Java or C takes multiple lines.
3) Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted language; it means the Python program is executed one
line at a time. The advantage of being interpreted language, it makes debugging
easy and portable.
4) Cross-platform Language
Python can run equally on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, and
Macintosh, etc. So, we can say that Python is a portable language. It enables
programmers to develop the software for several competing platforms by writing
a program only once.
5) Free and Open Source
Python is freely available for everyone. It is freely available on its official
website www.python.org
. It has a large community across the world that is dedicatedly working towards make new python
modules and functions. Anyone can contribute to the Python community. The open-source means,
"Anyone can download its source code without paying any penny."
6) Object-Oriented Language
Python supports object-oriented language and concepts of classes and objects
come into existence. It supports inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation,
etc. The object-oriented procedure helps to programmer to write reusable code
and develop applications in less code.
