… except there is another measure of programming language popularity out there. I’m referring to GitHub’s annual reports of the fifteen most popular programming languages on its platform.

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

I started off programming in QBASIC (I know it can be compiled, but I'll always think of it as interpreted), and I now use plenty of php, but what else is out there?

Python, however, is more accessible as a first language because it is an interpreted programming language, while C++ is a compiled language.

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.