Python and C, looking for a C IDE

[Michael Foord]

Fred <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<0h1ni0hjqggrk2atp7ao31a6l1dn2ctobk at 4ax.com>...
> On 24 Aug 2004 04:53:13 -0700, fuzzyman at gmail.com (Michael Foord)
> wrote:
> >I'm looking to learn C to move some 'speed sensitive' code from C to
> >python. I'm partly doign this as an exercise to learn a static
> >language to help broaden my programming skills - so please don't jump
> >on the bandwagon and tell me I'd be better placed to put my efforts
> >into optimising my python code !!
> 
> ... or you could take a look at writing this speed-sensitive part in
> PowerBasic. The speed and size of C, without the hassles :-)
> 
> http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbdll32/
> 
> I haven't yet looked at how to compile a DLL in PowerBasic and call it
> from Python, but it's on my to-do list.
> Fred.

Hmm... commercial, non cross platform... not for me - sorry.
I'd quite like to learn C anyway. Probably tackle lisp after that -
which is also (generally) a lot faster than python....

Regards,

Fuzzball

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