jszakmeister’s techblog

I’ve been meaning to set up this blog for quite some time, and finally got around to it one morning at 2AM. :-) I figured I’d start things off right by mentioning one of my all-time favorite programming languages. I started using Python when we, as in my company (Intelesys Corp), began using SCons, a Python-based build environment. I was fascinated by the fact that SCons could do dependency scanning of your source files and avoid having to maintain them in your makefiles, especially when some of the files are auto-generated. We’re now using SCons to build code for 3 different embedded platforms, and have even incorporated some of the weird nuances of the embedded environments. But, it was Python’s power that really enabled us to do that. Continue reading ‘Python is Great!’