I'm trying out Python
and it's really quite lovely. I think I'll teach it to the second years next term.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:04, 1 reply, 17 years ago)

(Fnar Fnar...Fnar Fnar)
I've never tried it but have heard great things about it. It's got to be less of an arse than IDL.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:10, Reply)

The only drawback so far
is the Mac keyboard's distinct lack of an easy # key.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:16, Reply)

# for comments, presumably?
I could smugly say it's your own fault for using a Mac, but that would be a bit pot/kettle/black from someone who only has Windows on their work computer.

I only use IDL because everyone else in my group does, so it's easy to exchange bits of code. If they'd just switch to Python (or similar) I wouldn't need a licence to run it from home and I wouldn't need to come into work. Though I'd probably never leave the house if that were the case, and go on to become a major internet fatty, festering in a stack of my own refuse.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:22, Reply)