Thread: When to switch from console apps??

I only have two problems with C#:
1. It is one platform only (for all practical purposes; mono is not even close to being useful) and
2. It is not a standard language. Yes MS BS-ed their way through some committees but only when it is a true standard and equally supported on all major platforms and by more than one vendor, it is still an MS-only playground and as such, it is a completely new language to support only one platform. If as MK says it is not smart to learn a new language for just GUI development, it is even worse to commit yourself to C# for GUI development on only one platform.

Originally Posted by jimtuv

Ruby is a blast. It's enjoyable to work with and I have actually started using it for a quick way to test algorithms before coding in C. I know it's probably silly to use one program language to help code another but I find it quite helpful.

IMO it is not silly at all -- perl, python, and ruby are all C interpreters and owe C/C++ much in terms of syntax. I know perl pretty well and do sometimes use it to test ideas for C stuff where the basic libraries are purposefully similar (eg, networking in perl mirrors C). Certainly very often by the time I get around to having to deal with some detail in C it's already familiar because of perl, and C is like an "exploded" view.

People do lots of crazy stuff with python. The only thing I've used it for is GIMP "script-fu", which you can either use scheme/lisp or python. Simple stuff with loops and functions to script the processing of fonts and images. Lisp I found horrifying.

Anyway, go with python. Ruby is very cute, intuitive like PHP. That blender stuff is very nice BTW. Can you draw well?

Since Blender so heavily relies on Python I will definitely learn that for sure. Here is a hand study I drew a few weeks ago.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../Handstudy.jpg

I plan on using C and Python to help me make some extensions to Blender that I hope will make it a bit more efficient for my purposes.

I looked at scheme/lisp just this afternoon. It does look a bit strange. I have read it's good for AI development and only Fortran is older. Fortran looks pretty straight forward. I did a quick Hello World in it last night and didn't have any trouble figuring out the syntax.