New Language
My new goal for the next several days – learn a new programming language – namely, Python.
I’ve heard about it quite a bit lately, and I did some quick copy/paste modifications to a python script last night and was fairly impressed by it. (In case you are wondering, I took this script and added threading based on information from this page.) Since things like threading are painful and quite inefficient in my current language of choice (Perl), I think it’s time to try this one out. Plus, there are some nice interfaces to add GUIs to the scripts. This might actually kick me in the butt enough to learn some C++ too (since python integrates tightly with C).
My first plan – take that allofmp3 script and add threading (properly instead of a quick hack) and also try to get it to automagically handle file renames in the scheme I like my music to be in. If all goes well, I’ll add a GUI to it as well. Hrmm… perhaps this is finally something high enough level that I could justify creating a sourceforge project out of it.
or – maybe I’ll just tool around with it for a few days and move on to something else… we’ll see 
May 6th, 2005 at 10:29 am
You should take a look at this post http://r00tshell.com/node/53