It's a snake, it's a snake!
- 26th September 2005 | permanent link
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Wrong. It's THE snake! Python. I've been flirting with this programing language (and you thought I was writing about Monty Python eh?) for quite some time now, and've now decided to dive in at the deep end. I've seen a few nice projects made with Python and so it found it's way on my to-learn list (wich is actually quite lenghty as you can imagine). So right now I'm reading Python In A Nutshell and liking it so far.
But why on earth Python?
Well there's a couple of reasons.
Python is an object-oriented programming language, but it lets you develop code using both object-oriented and traditional procedural styles, mixing and matching as your application requires. Python's object-oriented features are like those of C++, although they are much simpler to use.
- Excerpt from Python In A Nutshell.
All this makes it that more similar to PHP, my current language of choice. And as a self proclaimed web-fanatic, I found Django really interesting (thanks klaut for pointing this out).
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed and used over the past two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed from scratch to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of experienced Web developers. It has convenient niceties for developing content-management systems, but it's an excellent tool for building any Web site.
-Excerpt from the Django project website.
Sound interesting? Well it did to me, so here I am learning something new. And as a developer I've gotten used to this, 'cause I'll be learning all my life. Or so they tell me.
Ahem, and speaking of Monthy Python (see, I knew this topic change wouldn't work), on this very day (26th of September) Monty Python performs live at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (wich I regard as one of their best performances). Quite a coincidence ;)
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