On 10/12/07, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm coming to see how it's important to keep this > "core Python" idea current, as newbies from other > languages are used to a certain blending with eye > candy, e.g. Visual Studio, and think there's a fight > for "first lady" by Qt, Tk, wx and like that. >
And let me just add that I think the better eye candy add-ons are going to be shell friendly in some way, i.e. you want to be able to stand in front of an audience, projecting in real time, and animate a parrot or open a new window or whatever, interactively, from a command prompt. This implies "import widgets" semantics, with Python the controller. I think ZODB became more mature when it stopped trying to wrap Python as some baroque controller from hell, and became just another snake in the snake farm. Now a developer just goes 'import zodb' and has full shell mode access to sophisticated object storage -- everything from videos to grandma's cookie recipies will fit, with eye candy galore for your PDA -- or your server farm (thanks to Zeo, it scales). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
