Hello all! I'm learning to program at home. I can't imagine a better language than Python for this. The ideal situation, for me, would be to study two languages at the same time. Probably sounds crazy, but it works out better for me. Being a newbie, I find almost all languages fascinating. C, D, Objective-C, Ocaml, C++, Lisp, how is a non-tech to choose? Does any single language do a better job in Python's weaker areas? Would anyone care to suggest one to supplement Python. That is, if you could only use Python and one other language, which would it be? Thank you for your time and help.
Python (CPython - aka standard - implementation) and C would be my preferred combination.
The reason is that I often work with hardware, and hardware means C (since every vendor I have ever dealt with provides a C API for their drivers).
It combines well with the CPython interpreter as that, as you may have guessed from the name, is written in C and exports a direct C/API.
Cheers, Nick.
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