On Oct 2, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > That's a good point! I have people on a couple of other lists > sending me > advice too. So far the tendency seems pretty strongly toward Python > and > Django, especially for scientific computing (my main area for computer > applications). Mike, If you're doing scientific computing with Python you might be interested in SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/ I'll add my vote for Python too. It's an excellent language for a wide variety of applications. -Tim -- Tim Wilson, The Savvy Technologist Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 blog and podcast: http://technosavvy.org