[Tutor] Question
bob gailer
bgailer at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 15:55:47 CEST 2010
On 6/20/2010 5:59 AM, Payal wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:24:44AM +0000, ALAN GAULD wrote:
>
>> Actually that's a point. I favour learning two languages that are semantically
>> similar buut syntactically different. Thats why I chose JavaScript and VBScript
>> as my tutorial languages, because the syntax of each is so different you are
>> less likely to get confused, but the underlying programming model is very
>> similar in each case.
>>
> Hijacking the thread a bit. What about learning Jython and Python? Do I
> need to know Java to learn Jython?
>
No. Jython is "just" a Python interpreter written in Java. It allows you
to use Java classes in your Python code. You might want to learn Java to
take advantage of that.
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Bob Gailer
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Chapel Hill NC
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