Is Python programming language?

[rusi]

On Feb 8, 6:03 pm, gmspro <gms... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> One said, Python is not programming language, rather scripting language, is that true?
>
> Thanks.

One said: English is the language spoken in England.
Another One said: English is the language internationally used for
commerce, academics and much else.

Who is 'true'?  Is one false because the other is true?

[Amusing that this is being said at the same time as a necroposted
thread about the multi-meanings of bool in python]

More seriously: Python is one of the first serious programming
languages and scripting languages.
Those who think that one excludes the other are probably learnt their
programming/CS half a century ago and stopped learning soon after.

For many such mis-takes in CS education see my:
http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-1.html
and its sequel
http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-2.html