[Tutor] Two Newbile Questions: porting drawmap.c, & Python as a lifetime language

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Jul 5 04:24:23 CEST 2006


dnelson at cae.wisc.edu wrote:
> 2. Seeing Python hailed as a good language for learning programming,  
> how do you
>     rate it as a lifetime language? (I can imagine that many people have
>     settled into one language for doing the remainder of their life's work. If
>     I am pressed, I will choose Perl at this point.)
Python is great as a general-purpose programming language and it is my 
language of choice today. But I'll be pretty surprised if it keeps the 
spot on the top of the heap for the rest of my working life...

Kent



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