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Is it too late to learn Python
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I am new to programming and after a month or so of googling, I have decided to learn Python. Is this a good time to learn the language or people will soon jump ship since JAVA is now open source? By open source software, I understand that the code developed freely and more people have access. Am I right?
Python is a language that I personally have had no real experiance with but I understand is very popular in the open source world. Python and C appear to be the current choice for majority of open source developers, therefor you should have no shortage of projects to work on or great open source libarys to use. Java does not support as many open source libarys as python and I dare say will not anytime in the near future.
It appears that python is a really good beginner language and also quite good for quickly creating code.
It appears that python is a really good beginner language and also quite good for quickly creating code.
I also don't see people jumping ship to support Java. I feel community development will be quite strong with python and Java will have alot more commertial development ( organizations that wish to create open source projects. )
it's never too late to learn python 
awesome language, you'll pick it up quick and it beats VB (in my opinion)
awesome language, you'll pick it up quick and it beats VB (in my opinion)
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A lot of programmers use both Java and Python. Python has the advantage of a much more rapid learning and program development phase. So I would learn Python first. Once you learn Python you can access Java libaries easily with Jython, also open source.
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Python is one of the best languages I have ever used, after trying C, C++, Java, Ruby, and Perl. It's good for full-applications as well as small scripts.
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Look at the syntax of Java and Python. Which one would you rather use?
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If I would have to write an office suite to compete with Microsoft's Office, I would use Java, as has been successfully done with "Open Office". For projects that are less gigantic, and I need to develop quickly, I would use Python.
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Originally Posted by vegaseat 
If I would have to write an office suite to compete with Microsoft's Office, I would use Java, as has been successfully done with "Open Office". For projects that are less gigantic, and I need to develop quickly, I would use Python.
I find Python a lot *cleaner*. Meaning, the JDK is blatently THERE. And you can easily tell when an application is written in Java. In Python, you can hide what the language in (but why would you want to, good point).
Also, you only have to run one command to run a Python script/application. Whereas with Java, you need three hundred million tools. What is it, like javac, javah etc?
I'd use Java, if they had one thing. Like,
java JavaApp.java instead of three thousand.Like, currently, I'm writing an application in Python similar to FL Studio. I mean, yeah, C++, C, Java, etc. maybe more efficient (by far) for a media-creation application, but Python is what I know and have for a tool.
I mean, if you have a pen, write in pen. If you have a pencil, write in pencil. If you know Java, use Java. If you know Python, use Python.
Personally, I find the syntax, set up, and workspace and running environment of Python to be far superior to that of Java.
Last edited by linux; Mar 24th, 2008 at 8:10 pm.
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