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
USGS-maps-to-shaded-relief-or-contour-map-renderer, and I have finally
hit the wall. I have managed to make things sooo complex that the
effort to learn a new language no longer seems unaffordable.
I am seeking opinions from seasoned veterans on the following two questions:
1. What's involved in a port of a C program into Python? (drawmap is
offered in
a number of linux distributions btw.)
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.)
Humbly,
--
David
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