Python will help you as a novice for these reasons: 1. Help you to learn programming concepts and develop good habits. 2. Powerful Standard Library to help you do more advanced things. 3. Smooth, shallow learning curve, e.g. hello world is:
print "Hello World" So you can do simple things in python with minimal learning. 4. Excellent, friendly, patient, helpful user base. 5. Code is inherently more maintainable than other languages. 6. comp.lang.python In short, you have come to the right place. I have used many programming languages (C, Java, Fortran, Python, Perl, just to name the more famous ones) and python takes the cake as a general purpose programming language. By the way, ignore any posts talking about speed of execution. This is generally a non-issue for new programmers. If you want your code to run faster, buy a faster computer. James On Monday 20 June 2005 07:47 am, Aziz McTang wrote: > What I'm looking for is more to learn one good, comprehensive > programming language well than several approximately on an ad hoc > basis. What I also failed to mention is the desire to develop my > presently limited computer skills a lot further. -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list