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PYTHON

and the list goes on...

Used by many companies across the world including Google, Rackspace, Industrial Light and Magic, Flickr and many others.
A thriving community of developers and contributors and third party application developers.
PyPI (Python Package Index) lists about 33500 third-party software projects*... You name an area, there must be a Python package in it and mostly opensource and free!
Interpreted, dynamically typed, clean syntax, very easy to learn.
Learn Python in an Afternoon ;) - http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

and the list goes on...

Used by many companies across the world including Google, Rackspace, Industrial Light and Magic, Flickr and many others.
A thriving community of developers and contributors and third party application developers.
PyPI (Python Package Index) lists about 33500 third-party software projects*... You name an area, there must be a Python package in it and mostly opensource and free!
Interpreted, dynamically typed, clean syntax, very easy to learn.
Learn Python in an Afternoon ;) - http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }
}

#include 
main()
{
    cout << "Hello World!";
    return 0;
}

Requires a LOT more than just common sense.

Common sense: When you want to print a string, just print it.

In Python interpreter

 >>> print "Hello, world."

As a script

Open your favorite editor and type

#! /usr/bin/env python
print "Hello, world."

and save it as hello.py. And then execute it from command line as below

$ python hello.py

if expr1:
    do this
elif expr2:
    do that
...
...
...
else:
   do whatever

Truth value testing

if x:
    pass

DON'T

if x == True:
    pass