OT: Worth learning python?
Deron Meranda
deron.meranda at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 17:55:12 UTC 2005
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:00:28 +0000, dave irving <dave.irving at gmail.com> wrote:
> but going forward with Linux is there a good argument for learning
> Python too? If so I might order myself a book!!
Most definitely. Most of the "glue" in the Linux OS (not the kernel
itself btw),
especially the Red Hat/Fedora distros, is tending to be Python these days. All
the administrative GUIs are python, yum is python, most things if not C/C++
are python. And Python is pretty easy to learn compared to most languages,
and is a pleasure to program in.
Just some opinions of a few respected people:
Eric S. Raymond: (Open Source "godfather")
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 -- Very persuasive article
Paul Graham: (Founder of ViaWeb, LISP guru, Antispam filtering)
http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
(Second one is a long but insightful essay, Python discussed throughout)
Plus companies like Google and Pixar use Python extensively as their
primary "scripting/glue" language.
I myself have programmed in probably a hundred languages by now,
everything from COBOL to C++ to Haskell, and there are only two
languages I actually prefer to write in now: C++ (for very large complex
projects), and Python (for everything else). Others may of course have
different opinions and that's fine. But it's worth checking out Python.
--
Deron Meranda
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