On Nov 29, 3:15 pm, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 11:22 pm, SamFeltus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > """Perhaps we need a pythonic FRONTEND. """
>
> > Should have happened years ago.
>
> It did.  Mark Hammond embedded Python under MSIE about
> the same time javascript and java applets came along (94, maybe?)
> It didn't fly because of political and marketing problems,
> I think.  One technical killer was that C-Python can
> be crashed relatively easily by malicious code, and
> browser providers don't like that too much.  Also, the
> stuff you need to do to make it crash proof would make
> the interpreter a lot slower (which may be why javascript
> is pretty slow).
>
>   -- Aaron Watters
>
> ===http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=msie+de-facto+...

Time for another go, perhaps, seeing as the web has become the world's
default user interface?
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