Basic Difference Between C And Python: When it comes to programming, one of the most common dilemmas in our mind is regarding the choice of language to be used. In this article, I summarized the two most popular languages of their time to present the basic difference between C and Python. One is the mother of all programming languages, and the other is the most popular for the last 5years.
Python
Python is one of the most popular languages of the present time, developed by Guido van Rossum in 1991.
It is an interpreted, high-level, structural/procedural, object-oriented, functional programming and general-purpose language, a language like c++ but is more readable than c++. One can easily understand the meaning of code, just reading it. Python is one of the most beautiful, readable, explicit as well as simple languages.
According to a PYPL survey by Github, Python is the most popular and only language that grew by 20% in the last 5years. Python was ranked as #1 in the survey, followed by Java at #2 and Javascript at #3.
Scope of Python:
- Web-development
- Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
- Game Development
- Data Science and Visualisation
- GUI
- Web Scrapping
- Cloud Computing
C
C is a general-purpose, procedural/structured, compiled language, developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 in Bell Laboratories. C is also termed as the mother of all programming languages because most programming languages/modules of programming languages are written in the C language. According to a PYPL survey by Github, C is ranked as #6 in the survey with a share of 5.8%.
Scope of C:
- Embedded System
- Operating System
- Assemblers
- Compilers
- Interpreters
- Databases
- Network Device
Simple code segment to show the basic simplicity and readability difference between Python and C:
C Program
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int id = 1014;
printf("%d",id); //will display id on screen
return 0;
}
Python Program
id = 1014 #1014 is assigned to id
print(id) #will print value of id on screen
The major difference between C and Python:
- Python is interpreted while C is compiled.
- The variable declaration before its usage is not necessary for Python while is mandatory in C.
- The semi-colon (‘;’) is not used in Python while mandatory in C to show the code’s termination.
- Indentation plays a vital role in Python to determine scope while in C, the scope is determined by curly braces (‘{}’).
- Python is an object-oriented language, whereas C is a procedural language.
PYTHON | C |
1. Python is interpreted. | 1. C is compiled. |
2. The variable declaration before its usage is not necessary for Python. | 2. The variable declaration before its usage is mandatory in C. |
3. The semi-colon ( ; ) is not used in Python. | 3. The semi-colon ( ; ) is mandatory in C to show termination of the code. |
4. Indentation plays a vital role in Python to determine scope. | 4. In C, the scope is determined by curly braces ( {} ). |
5. Python is an object-oriented language. | 5. C is a procedural language. |