Python is also used extensively by Google and NASA. I just read on an interesting blog post that <a href="http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com/search/label/INTERCAL">15% of MS Vista was written in Intercal</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL">
Wikipedia entry for Intercal</a> is worth reading for a chuckle.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">
kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And of course Windows Vista is written in Python :-)
<br><br>Roland Gesthuizen wrote:<br>> One of my VCE students won an IT scholarship and returned to school<br>> after a January University summer camp with some experience programming<br>> in Python and some very good impressions about how easy it was to learn
<br>> and use. During the camp, her team built a web crawling Internet robot<br>> and a computer game then had a quick look at VPython. She had only just<br>> cut her teeth on GameMaker in year 10 and again at year 11.
<br>><br>> From what I can Google, there are ooodles of resources, tutorials and<br>> training videos out there. Free to download and works on Windows and<br>> Unix/Linux/MacOSX systems. Would love to learn it myself beyond just
<br>> typing "hello world". :-)<br>><br>> Regards Roland<br>><br>> On 13/06/07, *Steven Bird* < <a href="mailto:sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au">sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au">
sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Our students do Flash in Yr 9, <a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a> <<a href="http://VB.NET">http://VB.NET</a>> in Yr 10,<br>> PHP and MySQL in Yr
<br>> > 12 so I am thinking I might go with either :<br>> ><br>> > 1. Basic PHP/MySQL or<br>> > 2. VBA behind Access or Excel or<br>> > 3. ASP in web pages or
<br>> > 4. java or<br>> > 5. javascript or<br>> > 6. python<br>><br>> As I've mentioned previously on this list, we've chosen Python in our<br>> new first year IT subjects at Melbourne University. Sydney Uni also
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