As you probably know, Python is a high-level programming languages with multiple paradigm features such as object-oriented, interpreted, imperative, reflective, procedural and functional.
Apart from these features, it is designed in such a way that the codes written in python are highly readable and takes fewer lines for code completion as compared to other programming languages such as Java, C++, Php etc.
This is one of the major reason behind its heavy usage in IT sector that includes web development, GUI Development, Scientific and Numeric Computing, Software Development and System Administration.
Code Comparison Between Python & Other Languages
We have compared the codes written in python and programming languages like Php, Java, C++ etc. to get a clear picture how we can reduce efforts in writing same codes using Python.
Let’s a have look on a simple “Hello World” program written in Python and other programming languages.
“Hello World!” Program in C++
1 #include <iostream>
2 using namespace std ;
3 int main( )
4 {
5 cout << “Hello World !” ;6 return 0 ;
7 }
“Hello World!” Program in CClearly, a simple “Hello World!” program in C++ is finished in seven lines. Let’s find out how same code goes with other languages.
1 #include <stdio.h>
2 int main( )
3 {
4 printf(“Hello World !”) ;5 return 0 ;
6 }“Hello World!” Program in Golang In C programming language, a simple “Hello World !” program has taken six lines. Only one line less than C++.
1 package main
2 import “fmt”
3 func( ) main {4 fmt.Println(“Hello World !”)5 }“Hello World!” Program in JavaGolang programming language which is developed by Google Inc., takes five lines to print a simple “Hello World !” program.
1 public class HelloWorld {
2 public static void main(Strings[ ] args) {
3 System.out.println(“Hello World !”) ;4 }5 }
“Hello World!” Program in PhpThe above simple “Hello World!” program takes five lines in Java Programming Language. Let’s now write the same program in Php.
1 <?php 2 echo “Hello World!” ;3 ?>
“Hello World!” Program in KotlinIn Php, a simple “Hello World!” program takes three lines as shown above. It is less than the lines taken by Java, C and C++.
1 fun main(args : Array<String>) {
2 println(“Hello World !”)3 }
“Hello World!” Program in FortranKotlin and Php takes same number of lines to print “Hello World !” on the screen as shown above.
1 program hello 2 print *, “Hello World !”3 end program hello
In Fortran, there are two ways to print “Hello World !” program. It can be completed in two or three lines as shown in the above example.OR
“Hello World!” Program in Swift
1 import Cocoa 2 var myString = “Hello World !” 3 println(myString)
We have compared almost 8 languages and every language has taken atleast two lines to complete a simple “Hello World !” program. Now let’s write the same program in Python Programming LanguageClearly, Swift programming language takes three lines to print “Hello World !”
“Hello World!” Program in Python
print("Hello World !”)So, it is quite clear that python programming language reduces the coding effort to a great extent by enabling a programmer to write codes in fewer lines as compared to other programming languages and as a result the overall time to write a particular program is reduced.See, how easy the same program has become in python programming language. It has taken only a single line to print “Hello World !”
Now, you can imagine how easy the programming will become if you go with Python and that’s why, Python has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world and is currently influencing the IT sector more than any other programming languages.
Comparing Features Of Python With Other Languages
Though python is a multi paradigm and interpreted language, it has many similarities and dissimilarities as compared to other programming languages.
It is influenced by ABC, Java, Perl, C++, Haskell etc. and has influenced languages like JavaScript, Ruby, Swift, Go, Cobra, Groovy, Falcon etc. This clearly means Python has something to relate with these languages. Let’s compare features of python and other programming languages.
Python & Java
Python being influenced by Java possess some dominating features. Codes written in python are much shorter and readable than the codes written in Java.
Despite the fact that python programs run slower than Java programs, features like dynamic typing, duck typing and built-in data types makes python a better choice for rapid development.
Python codes can also be implemented on Java Platform using Jython, a cross platform python programming language interpreter.
Python & PHP
Both Python and PHP are open source, interpreted and high level languages. Also both languages support namespaces, cached bytecode, method chaining, GTK, QT and can run on all platforms.
But Python has many other features that makes it different from PHP. Let’s have a look on these features.
- Python has very simple syntax and uses indentation for writing block of codes while PHP has comparatively more verbose syntax that includes curly braces for block of codes, dollar signs etc.
- Python supports multiple inheritance, operator overloading, threading, iterators, SWIG integration while PHP doesn’t.
- Applications built using Python are more scalable as compared to those built using PHP language.
Python & C++
Both Python and C++ programming languages have multi-paradigm features such as procedural, functional, imperative, object oriented, but they completely differ in their typing disciplines.
While Python supports duck, dynamic and strong typing, C++ supports static, nominative and partially inferred typing.
One of the major difference between the two is that python codes are about 5-10 times shorter than the codes written in C++ which means, python takes much less time in developing applications as compared to C++.
Python & JavaScript
Python is a high level programming language can be used for many development purposes such as web development, system administration, scientific & numeric computing, game development, Artificial Intelligence etc.
Whereas JavaScript is a high level scripting language which is mainly used for developing web applications just like HTML, CSS and AngularJS.Also python has large standard library as compared to JavaScript.
Python Vs Golang
Both are interpreted language. Python has annotation and runtime generic support while Go doesn’t have. Python can be used to make GUI based desktop applications while you cannot use Golang for the same.
Python is used for data analysis, web development, system administration, game development. On the other hand, Go programming language is used for embedded systems, cloud computing, distributed systems etc.