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Python
Popular general purpose programming language whose philosophy focuses mainly on code readability and maintainability. As a high level, interpreted language, Python is easy to learn for those who want to start coding.
| First released | 1991 |
| Developed by | Guido van Rossum |
| Latest stable version | 3 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
| Used by | Youtube, DropBox, Survey Monkey, Google, Quora, Reddit, Yahoo Maps |
Interesting facts
In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 Python was ranking 5th in Programming Languages for Web Developers (not counting SQL).