Re: [OT] Programming Language

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year...

Programming languages are like religions, everyone thinks their one is
best. However I can try and give you some hints as to which might be useful
for you...

VB - Well you can't really get VB any more, it's this dot net stuff now
which is in reality totally different from VB. However I do know for a fact
that every time someone writes an application in this 'new' VB God kills a
kitten.

Python and Perl - Both interpreted languages both available on Linux and
Windows and 99% of the time you can write on one platform and just copy to
the other an it'll still function. Both are FREE and can be got from
Activestate

http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl

it has a nice installer to make life easier.... they also do a Python
distribution

http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePython

C and C++  - These are options too, indeed C might be useful to you with
your PIC stuff too - These tend to be a bit harder to learn but are well
worth the effort imho. Nice tight small executables (although if you really
want to create bloatware you can ;) )

HTH

Andy


On 27/12/2005 at 09:00 Frank Mc Alinden wrote:

>Hi Guys
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>I would like to force myself to (at least try)  learn a programing
>language
>so i could maybe write some simple apps for my xPL  usage....Have
several
>books on C ...VB........
>But i was browsing the web and came across Python ...??? Is this a
>suitable
>language for my needs and is it easy for a non programmer to pick
>up.......Here ther link where im currently reading from...
>http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
>
>Thanks
>Frank
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