Heather Stovold wrote: > I am a "retired" programmer, that started in the DOS world. (Well, I guess > I started pre-DOS...). I learned C++ (for DOS), and Pascal (for DOS) when I > was in school - and programmed for several years in Basic. (Ok - it wasn't > my choice - but it was what I was hired to program in - and each single-user > license was around $7,000 - so who was I to argue!) I later did some stuff > in Visual Basic, and did some OOP in it. > > HOWEVER - I have not programmed a single darned thing for over 5 years. > And although I do remember how to program in general, I don't seem to > remember Visual Basic that well... so I'm looking around. (After all, If > I'm going to have to relearn a language - might as well be worth while!)
Heather, one of the beauties of Python is that it's rich enough for the advanced programmer and yet simple enough for the beginner. I came to Python after many years as a professional programmer (assembly languages, Fortran, COBOL, Symstream, PL/1, Natural, C, Perl, Prolog) and took to Python immediately. Yet, were my 11 year-old niece to tell me she wanted to learn to program, I'd steer her toward Python. You fall between these two extremes and I think Python would be an excellent choice for you. -- Steve J. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
