stéphane bard wrote: > hello, my boss ask me to prefer windev to python.
Find another job. (I'm serious. I've 2+ years of pain with Windev, and if your boss is clueless enough to believe all the marketing crap from PCSoft's droids, you really don't want to work for him). > I have to argue > > - python work on multiple platform (linux, mac, windows) > A good point but it didn't interest him. Because > we want to choose a language for prototyping. Python is far better at this than Windev - and the "prototype" is usually quite usable. > So multi platform is not enough. > > - python and windev are fast to develop Nope. Windev lets you quickly have a barely usable DB-GUI pipeline, and then trouble begins. Python, OTHO, really lets you do the job. > - windev as a good IDE, python? boa-constructor is ok with wxpython Aren't you confusing IDE with RAD ? > > - python is open source (that's not an argument for my boss, sorry > it's a boss ...) Python is free. And being a boss doesn't necessarily imply being stupid. > any idea for a strong argument ? My own argument would be "it's Python or it's without me" <g> More seriously: since you're in a Window-only shop, portability may not be a strong argument. But Python is also very good at Windows-specific stuff (COM etc) - and is widely used by Windows programmers (at least in France). FWIW, you may want to post this on fclpy too - there are some "hard-core" Windows developpers there... You can also point your boss to IronPython - if MS puts some money on it, it can't be a bad tool, isn't it ?-) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list