Alex Martelli wrote: > Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, GMP is a pain to compile (especially on Mac OS X), but I believe
> Just mentioning this in case you want to give Scheme another chance Thanks. I'll take a look at it. I think I've decided to finish off my little in project in Python first, though. I'd like to actually get it done (!). I may well decide to reimplement bits in either Scheme, or I might try my hand at Forth. My app will be small enough to permit re-writes. I had actually done a small 3-month Java project professionally about 7 years ago. Can't say I was too impressed. IMO, it was too verbose, I'm not an OO fanatic, and some immutable strings turned out to be not quite as immutable as I expected. I had a brief toy around with Java using Xcode very recently, and I was able to figure out how to download webpages easy enough (I do this to scrape stock quotes). I felt fairly confident that I could achieve what I wanted in Java, even though I'm fairly raw with it. I started from a default project using Xcode, and it seemed to generate a lot of base code. I quickly abandoned the Java idea, as I'm not gunning to be a Java developer, and Python seems to do what I want without fuss. I think that's the key to Python. You can do what you want without fuss, and it's copiously documented. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
