[Novalug] Inventing new languages

Maxwell Spangler maxpublic08@maxwellspangler.com
Fri Dec 26 14:53:23 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 11:15 -0500, Charles M Howe wrote:

> 
> I would give my eye teeth, or maybe my first born, to be fluent in
> Pascal, including the graphical part. Is that part of the standard
> distribution or is that wxpython only?

Pascal was a really good language when you worked in a text-only
environment and solid, traditional structured programming was all you
needed.

In order to facilitate some aspects of modern GUI programming, you'll do
better in a language like Python.

Python can handle very basic tasks, like reading through a text file and
processing data (the kind of thing you'd have learned back in class) as
well as complex GUI apps and web pages.  That makes it a good investment
if you only have the resources to learn one language.

Python was originally designed in large part to teach programming, so
it's far more easier to read and understand than things like perl.

And lucky for you, its easier to learn a language like Python if you *do
not* have a strong background with something like Pascal.  The two
represent two different styles going in two directions.  Master one and
it makes the other hard to conceptualize.

Good luck!

-- 
Maxwell Spangler
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA





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