On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am seeking opinions from seasoned veterans on the following two
> questions:
>
You're getting plenty of replies. Here's a bit more.
You're probably aware that ESRI has adopted Python for scripting with
their applications.
> 1. What
I missed the original post but I'll chip in anyway...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Really depends on what you do, if you program for a living most
probably you'll use whatever your employer tells you to use, if you
work by yourself you can choose, personally i like python because of
the enormous amount of modules available to do all sort of stuff, from
GUI programing, to unittest
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 choos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. What's involved in a port of a C program into Python? (drawmap is
> offered in a number of linux distributions btw.)
It really (really) depends on the C program -- C's so flexible that you
can write in a "Pythonish" style (specifically, avoiding pointer tricks,
kee
Relying heavily on the "newbies treated well" advertisment... :^)
I'm an old C programmer, which is to say (a) I am old, and (b) even
when young, I somehow managed to program in "old C".
I have been working--for years--on creating a personal variant of
drawmap.c, Fred M. Erickson's wonderful
