How useful is the "Processing" Programming language? Is it a waste of time?

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Published on 2010-05-27T03:31:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 3:41 UTC
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The language site: http://processing.org/

Does anyone use this language for anything useful? I have the opportunity to learn this in a classroom setting and am wondering if it will be a waste of time.

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