Python

From Linux 101, The beginner's guide to all things Linux.

Python is a very powerful scripting language. Beyond the typical traditional scripting type uses, full graphical applications can be written in it.

Python is perhaps one of the most unique scripting languages ever made. In essence, it takes the best features from many other languages and brings them together. There are programmers that would swear by python, and after doing a little research, you may even agree with them.

Python was released in 1991. It remained unchanged for nearly 8 years before developers came back to it to work on it. Since then its development has been making new releases about twice a year.

One thing that python boasts is a unique syntax style unlike any other languages.

Some features include:

The Standard Library with many commands/interfaces already created (import like Java)
Cool exception handling style
Easy to write Python bindings for other applications/libraries (many of which already created, ie pyGTK, databases)
Object oriented