µctrl Raspberryπ pico & arduino

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(01-26-2021 03:21 PM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote:  I'm not sure, but I guess, the average member here is too old to understand the feeling of the Python. The Python is the BASIC of 2020's.

I am not convinced that Python really is the way to get "laypersons" into programming. Myself I have paid off our house programming engineering software on everything from programmable calculators, mainframes, desktop computers, minicomputers (PDP-11, VAX...), unix workstations and microcontrollers using all kinds of operating systems and alomost ten different programming languages.

But I failed miserably to get a piece of Python code running on my Macintosh. An astronomy program (called "PlanetarySystemStacker") that supposedly runs on Windows, unix, and MacOS. After wasting an entire weekend (!!!) I gave up. Never in my own computing history have I encountered a greater mess than the way Python repositories and libraries are organised, especially when they depend on each other. The program of version 1.2.3 requires library x of version 2.3.4 which itself only works with library y in version 5.6.7. On the other hand, library y in version 5.6.7 only runs on Python 3.6.2 or lower but it turns out that my current version is 3.6.3. So I delete my entire Python installation and install an earlier version. Only to find out that this older version does not include the "mach kernel library". No problem, it can be donloaded from Intel and is free but requires licensing. Only that the license server does not work properly ...

After that weekend I crossed out the word "Python" with a thick fat line and never want to see that again on any computer that I have to do with.

And if it goes like that with someone who has been working with calculators and computers since 43 years - how can a newbie get happy with such an ugly mess of a programming environment?

Greetings
Max