On Friday 26 January 2001 12:06, you wrote:
>
> If you have done little programming and want one that is simple to
> start with but has a lot of power, I would recommend Python. It has
> inherently clean code and oject-oriented features, and with the aid of
> its extensive libraries and bindings, power similar to the best. I use
> it in preference to Perl because six months later I can still figure
> out how the code relates to the task just by reading it. Python is
> also available on a lot of platforms including windows, but it is more
> fun to program in linux where the emacs bindings make block structure
> so easy to handle. I heard someone did a similar Python editor for
> Windows, with autoindentation and delimiter highlighting and neat
> color-coding of statement and data types, but I have never seen it.
>
I fully agree with the python plug. and there is a python ide actually
written in python, it's called idle and is part of the tkinter package
(and works on windows too)
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
