This article will cover all the points which are important to know before we jump into the learning of the python language. We must know the history of language before learning its syntax. The following points will cover in the article:

• History of python.
• How python is different from other programming languages?
• Why python is considered as one of the important languages?

What is python language?

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level language. It uses the general English language in syntax to make it easier. It is one of the most popular languages and it is used almost everywhere.

History of Python

Guido Van Rossum is known as a godfather of the python programming language. The first release of python is in the 1991 year.

• Its foundation is laid in the year of 1980s.
• Its working was started in the year 1989, December.
• In 1991 February, Guido Van Rossum published his first code.
• In 1994, the new features like lambda, map, filter and reduces was released with its first stable version python 1.0.
• In 2000, List comprehension and garbage collection system features were released in python 2.0.
• In 2008, python 3.0 was released. It was outlined to overcome the basic flaws of the previously released versions of the python.
• Now, python 3.9 is a new release of the python language.
• ABC language and Module-3 is the base language that influenced Guido Van Rossum to develop this brilliant language.

How python is different from other programming languages?

• Python is the easiest language to understand and learn from other programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Perl, etc.
• Python has many in-built functions that save a lot of time and consume less memory.
• GUI can be created with a few lines of code.
• For beginners, python is the best language to start in the programming world.
• The development time of any application in python is much less in comparison with others.
• It can be used in both ways such as scripting language as well as a programming language.
• Another important aspect is python has dynamically typed language. We don’t need to write the data types of the variables as the compiler will automatically allocate the memory to variables at run time.

Why python is considered as one of the most important programming languages?

There are reasons behind this statement. Let’s understand its importance:

• The development of any application in python is much faster than others.
• It has a better memory management system.
• It supports all the platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. As it runs equally in all the operating systems.
• It saves a lot of time for the programmer.
• The beauty of this programming language is that even if you are non-programmer you can understand the working of a program a bit.