Re: Python is fun and useful (was: Python is fun (useless social thread) ; -))

2006-06-25 Thread Jane & Carl
> I believe the applicability of Python and related techniques to > process control, engineering programming, and so on, is vastly > under-appreciated. Conventional wisdom in these domains sees > Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Fortran as suitable vehicles. > You've seen how limiting this is. > > Fo

Python is fun and useful (was: Python is fun (useless social thread) ; -))

2006-06-24 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Trachte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Yes. I was a production geologist in a copper mine in the mid 90's. Our >mine planning software vendor Mintec (www.mintec.com) had chosen it as >t