programming toolbox

[William Purcell]

Thanks for the replies.

I am still wondering if C++ would be worth learning and I think it could be
answered by these three questions...

1. Are programs written in C++ better (in any form of the word) than
programs written in python or vise versa or equal?
2. Is compiled better than interpreted?
3. Is it necessary to know any more languages than python to be a
respectable programmer, i.e. to be able to take care of most programming
problems (text manipulation, gui programming, scientific computation, web
stuff)?

Thanks,
Bill


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:25 AM, eliben <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Biggest issue I have with Python is screen input and output. I am trying
> > to master wxPython (and Tkinter) but find this aspect harder than it
> > ought to be.
> >
>
> This is hardly an issue with Python. You'll run into it with all
> languages. You think wxPython is hard to master ? You should try
> writing GUIs with C and Motif :-)
>
> wxWidgets is, IMHO, one of the best GUI toolkits, and its Python
> binding is wonderful. Get yourself the book "wxPython in action" and
> you'll write pretty and functional GUIs in no time. I'm not sure how
> wxPython scales for really large and complex GUIs, but for everything
> I've needed from it so far, it worked beautifully.
>
> Eli
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