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I started using Python in 2003, and I fell in love with the language for a variety of reasons. The elegance of Python's whitespace based syntax, the well conceived built in data types, and a beautiful set of library functions. Since that time, many other people have discovered or rediscovered Python. At the time of this writing, the software industry is well into a resurgence of dynamically typed languages: Ruby, PHP, and Python.
It wasn't until I attended my first PyCon in 2004 that I became aware of Jython. People were glad of the ability to run Python programs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), but were wistful because at the time Jython was lagging behind the native C Python (CPython) interpreter in terms of supporting recent versions ...
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