I Like Python, Python Is Good
Every programmer should have at least two kinds of languages in their repertoire: A general-purpose scripting language (e.g. Perl), and an industrial-strength nitty-gritty language (C, Java).
I’ve neglected the scripting side recently, after dropping Perl a while ago just like Michael Jackson’s baby. At my old job, when a task came up where I needed a scripting language, I pulled out the only thing I really knew like the back of my hand: PHP.
Unfortunately, PHP isn’t much of a system-scripting language as it is a web-scripting language. It can be run from the commandline, but it’s not really the environment it was meant for.
For Christmas, I got a couple books on Python, and I’ve been impressed so far. In the few days that I’ve started to pick up on the lanugage, I’ve already managed to write a script to recurse through a web site and make an index of all the pages. I guess I’ve got my scripting language hole filled out nicely now.
Oh, and for those not in the know, there’s Jython, a Java implementation of Python. Keen.
Sung to “Food Is Good“:
i like python, python is good!
i like python, python is good!
juicy tuples, greasy lists
dictionaries and raw whitespace
geeky girls, will write python too!
get out of my way, or i’ll lambda you
i like python, python is good!
i like python, python is good!
I think it’s time for bed.