1. Background For the past decade or so, C/C++ has not developed well in the computing field and has not kept pace with the advance of computers. With existing programming languages, development speed and system efficiency often cannot be had at the same time. Either execution is fast but development and compilation are inefficient, or execution is slow but compilation is efficient.

1. Understand the Background of the New Language ABC was a teaching language designed specifically for non-professional programmers, but because it was closed, it did not succeed. During Christmas 1989, Guido van Rossum developed a new script interpreter and named it Python, as a kind of successor to the ABC

Author: Mark Pilgrim Publisher: Apress Published: 2004-07-19 ISBN: 9781590593561

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