1.3. Features of Python
Although practically a decade in age, Python is still somewhat relatively new to the general software development industry. We should, however, use caution with our use of the word “relatively,” as a few years seem like decades when developing on “Internet time.”
When people ask, “What is Python?” it is difficult to say any one thing. The tendency is to want to blurt out all the things that you feel Python is in one breath. Python is (fill-in-the-blanks here) . Just what are some of those blanks? For your sanity, we will elucidate on each here… one at a time.
1.3.1. High-level
It seems that with every generation of languages, we move to a higher level. Assembly was a godsend for those who struggled with machine code, ...
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