Python Projects

Since I first learned Basic on a Commodore PET in 1979 I've learned so many other programming languages that I lost count around 30. However only a few of them stuck, in the sense of being the language I'd reach for when I wanted to dash off a quick program (perhaps after reading some magazine article on an interesting problem). Those were, in chronological order: Basic, Forth, Turbo Pascal, Lisp, Ruby and finally Python. I doubt I'll be adding any more to the list now (I'm 77) and Python was a great place to end up. It combines all the best bits of its predecessors so I can write in object-oriented, or functional, or imperative or declarative style at will, even within the same module. It's fast enough for me, remarkably bug-free, and just works. And I like the way it looks, which has always been important to me (and the reason I never got on with C or Javascript).