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What is a Scripting Language vs Programming Language?

Originally, it was created as a UNIX scripting language for report processing. That’s also where its name comes from, as the Perl acronym standing for ‘Practical Extraction and Reporting Language’. Besides CPython, Python has other runtime environments as well, most importantly PyPy that omits the compilation step and only does JIT (just-in-time) interpretation. Python implementations …

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What is a Scripting Language vs Programming Language?

Originally, it was created as a UNIX scripting language for report processing. That’s also where its name comes from, as the Perl acronym standing for ‘Practical Extraction and Reporting Language’. Besides CPython, Python has other runtime environments as well, most importantly PyPy that omits the compilation step and only does JIT (just-in-time) interpretation. Python implementations …

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