On Sep 26, 11:48 am, "Tim Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/26 Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> The question I usually ask is "Does this language help me get the job > >> done?" Python often does. That's all that really matters, isn't it? > > > Well then it still depends on the perception of "job done". For example > > PHP programmers would bet their soul that their language of choice is > > exactly the right one to "get the job done." :-) > > You and me would indeed see a different picture on the level of doneness > > of such jobs ;-) > > Well, I did say "Often". Before now I've struggled for ages to write a > Python program to do a job, then when I've tried C# all the problems
What problems? > have fallen away and the job What job? > was done in an hour or so. But other > times it has been the other way around; I've done stuff in Python that > I wouldn't know where to begin with in other languages. One of my > constant refrains is that *no* tool is ideal for *all* jobs! > > -- > Tim Rowe If you have wxFormBuilder and the win32 library, it's pretty fast. Python's philosophy is to make common things easy and everything possible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
