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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ What follows is a summary of the python language:
- It is **[interpreted](interpreter.md) and highly dynamic**, i.e. data types of variables are dynamic, [lists](list.md), [strings](string.md) and [dictionaries](dict.md) are dynamic, since new versions there are even **arbitrary size integers** by default. There is automatic **[garbage collection](garbage_collection.md)**, code can be modified at run time and so on. All this of course makes the language **slow**, with big memory footprint.
- There is **class-based [OOP](oop.md)** which can at least be avoided, it is not enforced.
- Python **revolves around [dictionaries](dictionary.md)** (a [data type](data_type.md) capable of storing *key:value* pairs), i.e. most things are internally implemented with dictionaries.
- It **doesn't keep backwards compatibility**, i.e. new versions of Python won't generally be able to run programs written in old versions of Python. This is so that the devs can eliminate things that turned out to be a bad idea (probably happens often), but of course on the other hand you have to [keep rewriting](maintenance.md) your programs to keep them working (python provides scripts that help automatize this).
- It **doesn't keep backwards compatibility**, i.e. new versions of Python won't generally be able to run programs written in old versions of Python. This is so that the devs can eliminate things that turned out to be a bad idea (probably happens often), but of course on the other hand you have to [keep rewriting](maintenance.md) your programs to keep them working (python provides scripts that help automate this).
- Quite retardedly **indentation is part of syntax**, that's a [shitty](shit.md) design choice that complicates programming (one liners, minification, compact code, [code golf](golf.md), temporary debugging indentation, ...).
- There is **no specification** per se -- but at least there is online reference (*The Python Language Reference*) that kind of serves as one.
- It has a **gigantic standard library** which handles things such as [Unicode](unicode.md), [GUI](gui.md), [databases](database.md), [regular expressions](regex.md), [email](email.md), [html](html.md), [compression](compression.md), communication with operating system, [networking](network.md), [multithreading](multithreading.md) and much, much more. This means it's almost impossible to implement Python in all its entirety without 100 programmers working full time for at least 10 years.