Python for everything?

[phil]

Python is in my opinion the best "all-purpose" language ever
designed ( lisp is extremely cool but not as all purpose.)
Much more elegant than perl and far far easier to do cool things
than java (java is c++ on valium).

HOWEVER, "all purpose" needs a little disclosure.
A well coded C program may be 100 times faster than Python.
C forces you to learn some things about relative addressing
and memory management.
C is pretty much required for interrupt handling.
Python is coded in C. (everthing is coded in C, including C)
The C language embodies a language design philosophy which
has influenced everything for 30 years.

So Python is just a wonderful way to learn about things like
algorithms, with relatively little pain.  But the bottom
line for a would be computer scientist is that Python is
sort of like a model or an abstraction of C (which itself
is a very weak (but convenient)  model of the CPU)

IMHO

There probably is NO college where you can get out of
C++ and Java.  Too bad.

xeys_00 at yahoo.com wrote:

> I posted a article earlier pertaining programming for my boss. Now I am
> gonna ask a question about programming for myself. I just finished my
> first C++ Class. Next semester is a class on encryption(and it's
> probably gonna be a math class too). And finally back in programming in
> the fall with C++ and Java 1. The C++ will cover pointers, and linked
> lists, sorting algorithms, etc... I run linux and OS X. I have read in
> the old days that C was used for everything. It was a systems
> programming language, and also did a lot of the same stuff Bash scripts
> and perl do now. So, in that era, C did it all, from short to tall. My
> question is, can Python "do it all"? I am wondering what to learn as my
> scripting language. I have read that perl is good up to about 250
> lines, and after that it gets kind of hairy. However, from what little
> I have heard about Python, it's very well suited for readability due to
> the whitespace requirements of the language, and very good for large
> projects due to it's large amount of modules and it's object oriented
> structure. I would like opinions as to the suitability of Python as a
> general purpose language for programming unix, everything from short
> scripts to muds. Thanks for your patience, opinions, and comments.
> 
> Xeys
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