Python is designed from the ground up as a cross-platform, object-oriented programming language. The scale of python's success is easy to grasp when looking at the long list of highly successful products and organisations making use of it. Some of these include Google, YouTube, BitTorrent, NASA and the NSA (Lutz, 2009), but why has it become so widely adopted?.Much of Python's power comes from its huge "standard library", which has an extensive set of modules that allow programmers to easily build powerful applications. (The Python Standard Library, 2010) Additionally, Python is constantly evolving. The fact that Python is open-source means that anyone can alter the language for their own purposes. One key example of this is that the latest version of Python (Version 3) was released in June 2009 and as though the improvements and changes in this version were not enough, Google is working to optimize Python's performance further. (Paul, 2009).
Python's main drawback is its speed. (This is what Google are working to improve). When a python program is compiled, it is compiled into platform independent "Byte code" which is then interpreted and executed by the PVM (Python Virtual Machine). Compiling code to Byte Code first greatly expedites the interpretation process, but in situations where speed is of utmost importance, python is less than ideal. (Lutz, 2009) Another downside of python comes from its constant evolution. Including new and extended functionality in new versions of python means that the syntax must also evolve. As a consequence of this, the latest version of Python (version 3) is incompatible with earlier versions, meaning that a new interpreter must be installed to execute Python Version 3 programs. It also means tha...
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The Ada language is the result of the most extensive and most expensive language design effort ever undertaken. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) was concerned in the 1970¡¦s by the number of different programming languages being used for its projects, some of which were proprietary and/or obsolete. Up until 1974, half of the applications at the DoD were embedded systems. An embedded system is one where the computer hardware is embedded in the device it controls. More than 450 programming languages were used to implement different DoD projects, and none of them were standardized. As a result of this, software was rarely reused. For these reasons, the Army, Navy, and Air Force proposed to develop a high-level language for embedded systems (The Ada Programming Language). In 1975 the Higher Order Language Working Group (HOLWG) was formed with the intent of reducing this number by finding or creating a programming language generally suitable for the department's requirements.
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Linux have a lot of features and by the time its features are getting more. By the spreading of internet, Linux become more popular and more people learn that there is an operating system called Linux which is better than Windows.Linus Torvalds answers the question ‘What makes Linux so successful?’. He says “It is very simple.Because the software is free, there is no pressure to release it before its really ready just to achieve some sales targets. Every version of Linux is declared to be finished only when it is actually finished, which explains why it is so solid. The other reason why free software is better is because the personal reputation of the developer is attached to every release. If you are making something to give away to the world, something that represents to millions of users your philosophy of computing, you will always make it the very best product you can make. That’s the reason why Linux is a success .“(www.linux.org). We can understand that Linux(It is a free software) is not worried about sales, and it wants to give the best to the user.
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First of all I had no much computer programming skill from the past , but I do have some short-term programming courses completion. of course the basic idea from the past about python language programming is a big deal to me to prepared myself early for this class. Otherwise not easy to find out exactly what is going on around computer language program; programming a computer is not so simple and controlled within a short period of time, computer programming is need big time and a lot of effort.
motivated by the insatiable demand for more software features produced more rapidly under more competitive pressure to reduce cost.