just try dealing with some of the stuff I sometimes have to deal with in industrial automation -- they make C look good.

For example, recently, I have had to write a Logo! program in its version of ladder logic, Aromat IEC61131 program (I used Structured Text, which looks a bit like Pascal, but has some very interesting quirks), and an Animatics SmartMotor program (roughly similar to GW BASIC). At least all three of them were short.

Python is so much more fun -- and productive. Thankfully, I've been doing some of that, too lately, along a bit of wiring and electrical troubleshooting. I haven't blown anything up yet -- but some of my coworkers tried.

Tony