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.
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