Python

( /pi:´thon/)

   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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {BDFL}{demigod}{Guido}{languages of choice}{metasyntactic variable}{MFTL}{Perl}]