On Jul 14, 11:55 am, Deep_Feelings <doctore...@gmail.com> wrote: > So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why > you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?
As a hobbyist--and not a real programmer*--I think I chose Python (I don't really recall now) because of things like: - There is a good community, including tutor list, etc. - I wanted something that would run cross-platform (so no Visual Basic). - Preferred something free (so no REALBasic). - I wanted a high level language. - It seemed easiest to read and learn. I like mandatory indents, for example. - There are a lot of libraries for it with good support. - I liked the Zen of Python philosophy (to the extent I understood it). - Some high profile entities were using it, so it must have something going for it. - It was new enough to be a possible improvement over older languages while old enough to be established. - Who can't like a computer language named Python? Drawbacks: - AFAIK, running multiple Python apps all show up in the Windows task manager as "python.exe" (common to all non-compiled languages?) instead of the app's name. - Distributing as an executable is not as straightforward as I might hope. - I wish Python 3 wouldn't break my 2.5 code. - If it could be quicker (compiled), that would be better. (But haven't tried psyco or Shed Skin, etc.) - I've found understanding web programming hard, but that might be just the nature of web programming and not a Python thing. - I wish wxPython had a more complete rich text editor (but overall it is great). CM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
