Re: For the Windoze haters - VS2005

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:00:36 +0100, "Frithiof Andreas Jensen"
<frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In the DOS days, anybody could hack out a GW Basic program with
minimal training, in a few minutes. Microsoft is increasingly putting
programming out of our reach. So I, for one, am interested in any
"accessable" programming techniques.

Python puts accessibility right back to you: http://www.python.org/

Free - as in do what you like license - Simple syntax and with a very rich
set of libraries including SQL database support, XML support, internet
protocols, unit testing and regular expressions to name a few. The windows
version installs, uninstalls and run cleanly on windows with no fiddling
about just as it should.

If you have programmed before you can learn the language in 2 weeks - the
libraries take much longer ;-)

Python is something i do plan to look at. The only thing that puts me
off is that we have a super genius at work who is a 100% linux person
and he keeps telling me that python is crap. Then again, i qualify him
as an academic programmer with no commercial programming skill or
value at all.

Perhaps I should combine python with linspire, which I am also very
keen to use.... I can see me buying a new computer soon :)

.

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