[ale] programming languages

[Jeff Hubbs]

Python appealed to me because my programming chisenbopp is old-school,
and my old-school ways were satisfied by Python.  Of course, as I get
better and better at it, I feel that newer-school ways of doing things
will creep in and I feel that they already have.

I'm currently using Python to read and translate to HTML some CSV output
from a proprietary software development management tool.  In so doing, I
did something that was semi-new to me - exception handling (I'd seen the
same idea before in DG BASIC's "ON ERR") - and something else I'd never
had occasion to do before:  implement a state machine in software.  I
learned of state machines in college about 20 years ago and am only just
now coding it up for the first time.  

- Jeff

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:12, Ryan Williams wrote:
> > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> >
> > Interesting analysis, especially the relative growth of Python vs 
> > decline of
> > perl. I don't know how 'accurate' their survey is, but it's worth a 
> > look.
> 
> Yeah, I'm definitely going to look into Python regardless... I like 
> what I've read so far. Accuracy aside, that's a great reference! 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ryan
> 
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