grass going to python scripting (was Re: [GRASS-user] new module: r.surf.volcano)

[maning sambale]

Thanks Michael

> GRASS will continue to work with bash on platforms that support
> it--primarily Linux and Unix.

This gives me a sigh of relief at the moment

> However, we are using Python for the GUI now and Python has a number of
> advantages over bash for scripting. It is a full-featured programming
> language and hence more powerful than bash. It is also very cross-platform
> and will run on more OS platforms than bash. So we'd like to encourage users
> to begin writing scripts in Python.

I learned shell scripting primarily because of GRASS.  Probably now is
the time to start learning Python (for GRASS, QGIS and R).  A
beginners tutorial would be an excellent material to lessen the
barrier.  Just like Chapter 9.2 of the GRASS book.

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cheers,
maning
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