Kevin Altis and others have devised a much better label for Python than "scripting language" - agile language ("characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble")
Kevin explains:
We still don't have a complete set of tenets, but here's the working list:And don't forget that with Python, programming is fun again!
- excellent for beginners, yet superb for experts
- highly scalable, suitable for large projects as well as small ones
- rapid development
- portable, cross-platform
- embeddable
- easily extensible
- object-oriented
- you can get the job done
- simple yet elegant
- stable and mature
- powerful standard libs
- wealth of 3rd party packages
This is a work in progress for Kevin as he and others refine this statement.