您如何使用脚本语言（PHP，Python等）来提高工作效率？

Question

I'm a Delphi developer on the Windows platform, recently read the PHP tutorial at W3CSchools, it looks interesting.

We all know scripting languages are very good at web site development, but I also want to utilize it to improve my productivity or get some tedious tasks done quickly, maybe some quick-and-dirty string/file processing?

What do you usually do with scripting languages apart from software development? And we need a responsive, decent IDE/editor in order to gain productivity when writing scripts for this purpose?

Answer 1

I'll tell you how I've improved my productivity with Python on Windows. I just try to write everything in Python - every application I need, unless I know it won't scale and I'll need more efficient tools (in which case I personally use C++, but you could also use C#/Delphi).

It turns out that for most (> 95%) of the tools and utilities are need, Python (coupled with PyQt for the GUI) is good enough, and it's a much more productive language for me than C++. The key is stop thinking of Python as a "scripting language". It is no less a programming language than C++/Java/C#/Delphi/what say you. It has it strengths, and it has its limitations. As long as you're aware of them and know how to pick the appropriate tool for the job, you'll do just fine.

You don't need any special IDE. I use Scite for all my Python coding (on Windows and Linux, by the way), and it works great.