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On 05/27/2013 09:22 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>> suppose I now want the app natively on my phone (because that's all
>> the rage).  It's an iPhone.  Oh.  Apple doesn't support Python.
>> Okay, rewrite the works, including business logic, in Objective C.
>> Now I want it on my android phone. 
> 
> Those are gadgets, not work tools.

As a professional programmer I'm afraid you're going to soon find
yourself out of work if you really see things that way.  I honestly used
to feel that way about graphical user interfaces.