Subj : Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
To   : Kirkman
From : John Watts
Date : Wed Nov 21 2018 04:59 am

 Re: Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
 By: Kirkman to Clifra Jones on Tue Nov 20 2018 10:00 pm

> I also love Python. I found it easy to learn. I work in journalism where data
> journalists are often self-taught, and Python seems to be the most popular
> language (although many use R).
>
> --Josh

Python has great documentation, a thriving ecosystem of libraries and tools,
and fairly good cross-platform support. Lots of Linux distros ship it
pre-installed as dependencies for Python programs too.

But as far as DOS goes, I don't think you could get it to run let alone its
tools or libraries. There's a re-implementation named MicroPython that can
apparently be compiled using DJGPP but as a separate interpreter you likely
would need to patch or outright not be able to use existing libraries.

John.

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