[Discuss] learning python - formal training opportunities ?

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 06/12/2013 01:18 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Also, think of Python as a programming language not just a scripting 
> language.

Yes. Great for little one-off programs, but great for big systems, too.  
(An air traffic control system is listed in the success stories 
http://www.python.org/about/success/ .)

There are companies that consider Python to be one of their strategic 
advantages and would love their competitors to stay on C++ (heck, and 
use Windows servers, while they are at it).

It has flaws (big run time, inelegant language definition), but it is a 
marvelously powerful language.

No, it won't do the tight pixel-munging inner loop as fast as can C, but 
that is what libraries are for: run the tight inner loop in C!

-kb