Re: GTE DUATS and weather graphics/etc.

[Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

Kenyon D. Cox writes:

 > You bet.
 > 
 > As a confirmed non-programmer I've recently tried to decide which
 > script language to use for such a project, and how fancy I wanted to

Here's the script language to end all script languages:
http://python.org 

It really is very good, and you can choose 3 shiny O'Reilly books to
learn it from. You'll be up and flying within a weekend.

With http://swig.org , you can easily extend it in C, recoding the hot 
spots of your application (in case you should need it).

 > get with a Cirrus-type clone for at least my own use.  I have visions
 > of my computer emailing me automated weather checks
 > (fetchmail/sendmail) to my Palm Pilot or digital phone, faxing me a
 > copy of it (efax), compressing it to palmdoc (MakeDocJ) if I'm at
 > home, and having a nice GUI (Tcl/Tk) to mark off what I want
 > downloaded and when. <goosebumps just thinking of it>.
 > 
 > Since I've eradicated Windoze from my home office, I've just been
 > using the web access to GTE, and don't like it quite as much.  Need to
 > change that.
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