"Mark Harriss" wrote in message
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keithr wrote:

Never tried Python, I make my living with C#, Delphi, a little Perl, and
a weird scripting language that probably not more than 20 people in the
world use (or want to use). They all require Windows.

Python is a really good interpreted programming language:
With careful design I've written image processing software with a GUI
that was developed and tested on a Linux box, used on a Mac running OSX
and could run on a windows PC. It ran on all three without modification.

The commercial version of python is a lot faster than the free version
which is no slouch either. Printing is still a bit of a pain though.

Yes it is Mark, but as you say, the printing commands still need work even
after 12 years of development.

I especially dislike C++ and Java, but I suspect that I will have to use
the latter at some point. I've been writing in Delphi on and off for the
last 14 years, but it is dying and C# is similar enough to seem familiar
(they were both architected by the same man)

Python being a loosely typed language, you could consider it the
exact opposite of Java which I despise as being the most uptight anal
language I've ever been forced to use. It was written by control freaks
for control freaks. I find C and C++ far easier to use than Java.

Hear bloody hear. Python is a dream language with little or no constructs to
observe.
Java was written by an anally retentive control freak for anally retentive
control freaks, and although I prefer the freedom of scripting languages,
like Python or Perl, I would rather code in C++ than Java anyday!

ruff