IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles ...

Language aptitude explained almost 20% of the difference in how quickly people learned Python. In contrast, performance on the math pre-test only explained 2% of the variability in how quickly ...

Numbers game. Despite recording the maximum gain, Python actually slipped down a spot in the overall rankings. Back in November 2020, the language had toppled Java for the second spot on the ...

In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.

Python overtakes Java, JavaScript as most popular programming language for first time in 20 years The victory doesn't necessarily indicate it's the best, though By Zak Islam October 10, 2021, 10: ...

This is always the language that has made the most gains over the course of the previous year. According to the operators, Python recorded the biggest increase in the ratings, with growth of 9.3 ...