On 8/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:43 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > sebb wrote: > > > i totally agree with paul, python is the way to go. it has very strong > > > extensions for everything (check pygame!) and is yet very portable. > > > > Actually, Paul said (while recommending it) > > that python was _not_ very portable. > > Well it's portable in that it's available on multiple platforms, but the > architects of the language don't worry too much about breaking old > programs with new versions of python, at least not when compared with > perl. In other words, an old perl program is still likely to work on a > new version of perl, which might not be the case for an old python > program and a new version of python. > > Paul. While I had not considered that before, I think that I would stay away from a language that forced me to rewrite my code when I update. I guess that makes python a no-no, leaving me to consider bash/ C/ perl. Otherwise, python looked to be the way to go. Of them all, the perl tutorials that I found today seem to be the most newbie-friendly. I'll try and put together a few small scripts with perl and C, to get a feel for them as was suggested by Glenn and Thomas. Thanks, everybody! Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/131/counting_crows.php Counting Crows Song Lyrics
