Well, the debate has turned interesting, with very experienced inputs from Ambar Roy. I had started investigating about Python, by the time other comments were coming in. I do feel that we have a large community of programmers in Java than any of Perl / Python / Scheme / PHP / TCl and the likes. Fortunately, Python and Java are good partners, with Python described as a "glue" language. See http://www.python.org/doc/Comparisons.html for several articles comparing Python with Perl and Java.
I would like to recommend all to read, (specifically to Raju Mathur), an excellent article on the subject by Eric S Raymond: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882 In summary, it appears to me that (a) You must know Perl, a mandatory requirement (b) Knowledge of Java is preferred and (c) Python to be your default language ( There is some tk stuff for doing GUIs) Comments?? Anand Shankar ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
