> I think Python and C are simply a must, whatever the language you use in your daily job and whatever else you might want to learn. You cannot seriously call y

> I think Python and C are simply a must, whatever the language you use in your daily job and whatever else you might want to learn. You cannot seriously call yourself a programmer if you are afraid of C, and Python is too useful as an ad-hoc tool to be ignored. I haven't ever found Python to be useful since I started program. Perl, Bash, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. work equally well for one off scripts and Haskell works much better for mathematical calculations. For large programs I would never consider using Python. Maybe if I did machine learning my opinion would be different.