Python - good or bad?

Hello again :)

This blog is only 4 days old, and yet its already reached 1000 hits! And it's all thanks to you guys, thanks for viewing :) You may have noticed I have made a downloads page, where you can get my programs without needing a compiler.

Anyway, Python - some people love it, some people hate it. Its a very simple but versatile language, and anything you can do with C++ you can do with python. Personally, it was the first programming language I ever learnt. It introduced me into the world of programming, and for that, I owe it a lot. I would recommend it to any beginner programmers.

It, however, is not flawless. It only has one IDE, and it is very memory intensive. Also, it 'compiles' to a .pyc file that can only be run from computers that have Python installed (you can get a tool called PY2EXE, but this is very unstable).

Despite this, it is very very easy to learn and can easily introduce you to a C language or Java; and its far far better than the alternative beginner programming language, Scratch. Scratch is fine for children and very young programmers, but its more of a game than a programming language.

Thanks for reading :)