[Tutor] Running Python Scripts at same time

[Alan Gauld]

On 28/06/2020 10:59, John Weller wrote:
> I am an experienced programmer new to Python and had visions 
> of the early interpreted languages I used such as those of> the BBC Micro and early PCs

While there is a shared heritage as interpreted languages
Python is part of the new breed and is far more capable than
those earlier BASIC languages. It is also designed to integrate
with compiled libraries from the ground up and so has
accumulated a vast library that can tackle most jobs
for which the highest speed is not the chief criterion.

In many ways Python's structured syntax and compile-to-bytecode
approach is more like UCSD Pascal that used to be available
for the Beeb than it is to BBC BASIC.

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