Really depends on what you do, if you program for a living most probably you'll use whatever your employer tells you to use, if you work by yourself you can choose, personally i like python because of the enormous amount of modules available to do all sort of stuff, from GUI programing, to unittest, database, compression, graphics (OpenGL), etc.
I like it because is crossplatform, it may not be fast but most modules are written in C already and are fast. I like the ability to use py2exe and generate a windows executable in a folder with ALL that i need to deploy on windows, i just copy the folder and i'm done. The Python comunity is very nice too, this is a big plus if you are learning a new languaje, the tutor list is always very helpful and active. You can always make use of your C skills even on Python, by writting modules to extend python functionability or to speed it up. Good Luck! Regards Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela On 7/4/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2. Seeing Python hailed as a good language for learning programming, > > how do you > > rate it as a lifetime language? (I can imagine that many people have > > settled into one language for doing the remainder of their life's work. > > If > > I am pressed, I will choose Perl at this point.) > Python is great as a general-purpose programming language and it is my > language of choice today. But I'll be pretty surprised if it keeps the > spot on the top of the heap for the rest of my working life... > > Kent > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
