Python Programming Language

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1. Who created the Python programming language? Brian Kernighan Bill Joy Guido van Rossum Larry Wall

2. Why was the language called "Python "? The inventor's best friend suggested him the name. As a kid, the inventor liked to play the snake-and-ladder game. The inventorwas once attacked by a python in the Amazons. The inventor is a fan of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

3. Which of these languages does Python resemble in its class syntax? Perl C++ Smalltalk Eiffel

4. Which languages does Python owe its origin to? ABC, Modula-3 ABC, Smalltalk ABC, Eiffel Perl, Modula-3

5. Which of these languages have strong support for regular expressions? Python, Perl, C Python, Perl, HTML Python, Perl, Java Python, Perl, Ruby

6. The following is NOT considered as an advantage of the Python programming language. Allows for rapid development reducing software production lifecycles. Object oriented, easily extendable and highly scalable. Ideally suited for fast and memory intensive tasks like number crunching. Well suited for the novice as well as the expert.

7. Python is one of the pillars of the active opensource software community. Which are the other languages promoted by the opensource community ? (HINT: These languages are sometimes wrongly called 'scripting' languages) C, Perl, Tcl, Modula-3 Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Lua Perl, Smalltalk, Tcl , Ruby Eiffel, Module, Perl, Haskell

8. Which of these languages has Python NOT borrowed its features from? CLISP (Common Lisp) Java C++ Fortran

9. What is the Java implementation of Python popularly known as ? JavaPython PyJava Javathon Jython

10. Which are the Usenet newsgroups on the Python programming language? comp.lang.python, comp.lang.python.announce comp.language.python, comp.language.python.announce comp.python, comp.python.announce alt.lang.python, alt.lang.python.announce