[GRASS-user] What scripting language should I learn?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/12/3 Daniel Victoria <daniel.victoria at gmail.com>:
>> As for the language, I believe Python is the choice of most
>> developers. It's easy to learn and simple to code. I also used bash
>> scripting a lot but I believe it's specific to linux or MacOS, not
>> beeing portable to Win. also, I hear Grass 7 scripts should all be in
>> python.
>
> right [1]. See also GRASS Python Scripting Library [2] which makes
> writing python scripts for GRASS easier.
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/scripts
> [2] http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/pythonlib.html


Additionally, there are
 http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python
and, if you like,
 http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Using_Eclipse_to_develop_GRASS_Python_programs

Markus