On 12-01-23 09:59 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:
On Monday, 23 January 2012, Yuri Pompeu wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I want to play around with some coding/programming. Just simple calculations
from an
input PDB file, B factors averages, occupancies, molecular weight, so forth...
What should I use python,C++, visual basic?
What you describe is primarily a task of processing the text in a PDB file.
I would recommend perl, with python as a more trendy alternative.
If this is to be a springboard for a larger project, then you might choose
instead to use a standard library like cctbx to do the fiddly stuff and
call it from a higher level language (C or C++).
Ethan
I have used a number of languages and have found only one I really
disliked, that being perl. It is hard for me to imagine that this
language was developed by a linguist yet in my eyes it is the least
natural language from human comprehension point of view. In contrast,
python is much more intuitive and should be very suitable for the tasks
you describe.
my 2p
Bart
