On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:06:04 +0200
"George Birbilis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But when it comes to speed, you can't use Python. It's a script-
> > interpreter! Just like Matlab...
>
> Matlab has compiler (into C)
> Python has compilers (see Microsoft's IronPython for .NET for example)
>
> > Further one small remarks:
> > - Python isn't a programming language. Your introduction about
> > Python says: 'written in Python programming language. It is an
> > interesting interpreter'. Which is offcourse a contradiction in
> > terminis. I guess that you would never write something that stupid
> > about structural analysis in the book. (like: The structure is
> > statically determinate, so
> > it can't be solved by equations of statics)
>
> Who says interpretted languages aren't programming languages? But
> anyway, there are compilers for Python (as I said in previous e-mail
> I've made compiler for Logo [generates Pascal from it] and you can do
> similarly for pretty any language combined with some small or bigger
> runtime [for reflection or name/value dictionaries etc.] for the
> dynamic stuff)
>
> > About using Lazarus as a IDE for Python: some ppl here can react
> > very hostile to that idea. And that's for a reason. From time to
> > time ppl come here to tell us that Lazarus is great, but it's only
> > a pity that it's written/used for Pascal.
>
> Which filetypes does the Laz IDE now highlight? For example can it
> highlight .XML or .XSL files? Since unihighlighter supports a ton of
> languages (have contributed highlighter for Logo myself for example
> some time ago) I don't see why the IDE shouldn't support all those
> and allow people to use it as a universal programming editor if they
> wish so apart from using it for Pascal projects (why use yet another
> text editor along with the nice Laz text editor?). Delphi has been
> doing that too and VS.net does the same too, can open and highlight
> many different filetypes and even provide intellisense for many of
> them
There is a default highlighter for xml.
You can edit the file extensions in the editor options, which are
highlighted by the xml highliter since I fixed a bug two weeks ago.
Mattias
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