[thelist] Suggestions for the next technology to learn
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 08:41:32 CDT 2003
Paul Bennett wrote:
> I have achieved a level of comfortable proficiency with PHP, a working
> knowledge of web standards (XHTML / CSS), accessibility issues, XML,
> client side scripting, mobile application development (WML only at this
> stage, although wap 2.0 is XHTML base anyway) , and have been
> considering investing some time into learning another server-side
> technology.
I've been having a lot of fun with Python over the past year, and have
recently moved up to using it as a server side technology via mod_python
on Apache. The great thing about Python is it is a truly general purpose
language - you can use it to write simple command line scripts, web
applications, GUI driven programs, network clients and servers - pretty
much anything. Getting a job working with Python is hard because few
people have heard of it, but if you learn it you'll have a tool for life
(and who knows, it could be The Next Big Thing).
Cheers,
Simon
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