python

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Simon,

Honestly, any type of application can be programmed with Python. Python
is extremely "wrappable" as it can be wrapped around virtually any type
of platform that exists. You can create GUI, system, and web apps
easily. The main niche that Python holds is the fact it exists for the
benefit of the programmer as opposed to application performance.

Maybe 6-8 years ago this may have not been beneficial for an
application. Now, however, inexpensive, faster and higher-performance
hardware has eliminated application speed and occasional memory leaks
as a non-factor (except perhaps for extreme data crunching and video
gaming -- which must squeeze out as much performance as it can from the
hardware) when it comes to deciding what platform one should use.

Python will help you be more productive as apps will generally be three
times faster to write as opposed to even a language that was once
thought to be easy, Java. A word of warning: once you've gotten used to
writing Python code, you will never want to write using any other
programming language.