Introduction to Python
Google has been a supporter of Python from nearly the very beginning. In the beginning, the founders of Google made the decision of “Python where we can, C++ where we must.” This meant that C++ was used where memory control was imperative and low latency was desired. In the other facets, Python enabled for ease of maintenance and relatively fast delivery.
Even when other scripts were written for Google in Perl or Bash, these were often recoded into Python. The reason was because of the ease of deployment and how simple Python is to maintain. In fact, according to Steven Levy – author of “In the Plex,” Google’s very first web-crawling spider was first written in Java 1.0 and was so difficult that they rewrote it into Python.
Python is now one of the official Google server-side languages—C++, Java, and Go are the other three—that are allowed to be deployed to production. And in case you aren’t really sure about how important Python is to Google, Python’s very own BDFL, Guido van Rossum, worked at Google from 2005 to 2012.
To top it all off, Peter Norvig said:
“Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we’re looking for more people with skills in this language.”
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