Having had to make this http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/970231/Useless_use_of_a_constant_in_void_context.html
then this http://code.google.com/p/tims-octopus/source/browse/trunk/octopus.py coz we just had to have good sounding tunes, I found Python much more fun to work with, and a breeze to maintain.