What is Python good for?

[Steve]

beppu at binq.org (John Beppu) wrote in message news:<mailman.1000330590.19641.python-list at python.org>...

> My background in /bin/sh and C programming made perl
> really easy, because it just felt like perl fit
> right in the middle.  I can't say perl was very hard
> for me to learn

I started programming with a turning machine emulator from a
philosophy class in college typing "1" and "0" over and over and over.
 After that I went on to Pascal.  Once I switched into computer
science just about every csc class I had in college used c++ as a
teaching language.

After that every language seemed easy to learn......just a matter of
putting in the time.

The only exception was LISP( I was an emacs junkie in school ).

The conceptual nature was okay, I just didn't function well with all
of those nested brackets.