On Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:30:27 PM UTC+8, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2014-02-12, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK - it's degenerated into one of these threads - I'm going to > > > participate. > > > > Me, too! > > > > I wrote lots of programs, strictly for fun, on every personal > > computer I got my hands on. Toward the end of the 80's personal > > computer's stopped coming equipped with programming environments, > > and I stopped programming. > > > > I eventually learned some computing theory in college where they > > taught C and the rudiments of C++. > > > > Thanks to the open-source movement we've returned to the days > > when anybody can program for zero cash. You can program well > > enough to amuse yourself with very little effort indeed. > > > > To get from there to being able to write programs to do useful > > things for yourself is a lot harder, but this is the niche that > > Python fills excellent well. If this is what you want to do, > > Python is a good way to go. > > > > That's still just the beginning, but it's a pretty good place. > > > > -- > > Neil Cerutti
I wrote programs for viewing gif, pcx, bmp, and jpg images in 1991 to 1992. Also I was planning to write an Lotus123 clone at the time, but I was too lazy to chunk out that project in 1993. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list