Giveitawhril wrote... > REAL WORLD programmers who want to be generally useful go > and learn C#.
No: Real programmers first eat a quiche and then return to their Pascal programming. > But the SOURCE is some old, high level language which no one wants to > use anymore! C is alive and kicking. Every language has its place. Plus, there exists implementations of Python written in Python itself; see PyPy: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/home.html > Just noting that, if it is written in C, that throws a curve at me > in trying to balance the value of learning Python vs. some other > major language. Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also written in C. Does that mean you should do all your text processing in C? Greetings, -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Vallopillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list