Python and other language

Dears
Hope everyone are fine
Am chemical Engineer and I don’t have any Idea about programming or programmer’s languages, So my I ask what is the difference between python, C++ , Cmake and etc. Which one is better to use for input script or if I use notepad ++ for input script then does i need also python or cmake or other languages

regards

This is a broad question that has been better answered elsewhere online, but a key difference between Python and C++ is that Python is an interpreted language and C++ is a compiled language. For chemistry-specific applications, however, this recent blog post might be of interest:

For the Materials Project specifically, we tend to use Python for its ease of use, as well as convenient access to the large number of available open-source data science & machine learning packages written in Python.

Also – sorry if I misinterpreted, is this question specifically about LAMMPS?

yes please

by the way your previous answer was helpful many thanks

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For python, you can use ASE package.