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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More Funny Stuff From The Joke Python
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 01:01:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:03:34 -0400, Joel wrote:

> I don't know what you would expect to do with it.

When I started doing Linux/Unix programming (late 1990s), it was back-end 
web stuff with Perl. Then I needed to do something with a GUI that a local 
user could run. I initially wrote it with Tcl/Tk.

Then I discovered Python. I redid the app with that, using GTK as the GUI 
toolkit. It worked so much better, I never found another use for Tcl after 
that.

These days, Python is my language of choice for bread-and-butter back-end 
stuff. It has a vast number of addon libraries for interfacing to just 
about any kind of functionality you might want. And I have done my bit to 
add to those libraries.