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