Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-26 Thread sturlamolden
On Feb 24, 7:04 pm, Thomas Bartkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most user apps. require 95% of coding effort to provide a usable user > interface and 5% effort on the algorithmic meat. The "afterwards" you > allude to. So why do we still endure so much programming effort on the > unimportant part

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-24 Thread Thomas Bartkus
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:03:43 -0800, Andy Dingley wrote: > GUI-based" is fairly unimportant as it's just how you build your > programs, not what they do afterwards Most user apps. require 95% of coding effort to provide a usable user interface and 5% effort on the algorithmic meat. The "afterwar

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-20 Thread Jordan
On Feb 18, 7:35 pm, Dave Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-02-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > You might take a look athttp://dabodev.com > >

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-20 Thread Laurent Pointal
Mark Morss a écrit : > On Feb 16, 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i >> am unable to deciced. >> >> i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go >> through with GUI based programming language like VB.net >> >

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Stef Mientki
> > It's now the *3rd* time I mention Glade, wxGlade and QTDesigner in this > thread. Hendrik, I know *exactly* what Stef is talking about - been > here, done that. Doubt, that know what I'm talking about ... ... Glade, wxGlade, QTDesigner are not my choice ;-) ... at the moment I tend towards

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > On Feb 16, 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i >>am unable to deciced. >> >>i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go >>through with GUI based programming language like VB.ne

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Hendrik van Rooyen a écrit : > "Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Stef Mientki a écrit : >>(snip) >> >>>I've been using Python for just 2 months, and didn't try any graphical >>>design, >> >>So how can you comment on GUI programming with Python ? > > > I think we have a

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Peter Decker
On 19 Feb 2007 09:56:06 -0800, Mark Morss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good grief. I suppose it is Microsoft to whom we owe the idea that > there could be such a thing as a "GUI based" programming language. Who do we blame for the idea that everyone in the world should be able to express themsel

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Mark Morss
On Feb 16, 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > so will you please guide me

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Andy Dingley
On 16 Feb, 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language Why? What is causing you to do this, and what do you need to achieve by doing it? > i want to go through with GUI based programming language like VB.net "GUI-based" is fairly unimportant

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Holden
Muntasir Azam Khan wrote: > On Feb 17, 3:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i >> am unable to deciced. >> >> i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go >> through with GUI based programming language like VB.net

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread Muntasir Azam Khan
On Feb 17, 3:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > so will you please guide me

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread sturlamolden
On Feb 16, 11:12 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "GUI based programming languages" ? What's that ? LabView -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-19 Thread sturlamolden
On Feb 17, 1:34 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - designing the GUI will cost me about 2 .. 3 times as much in Python Use a design tool like GLADE for PyGTK, wxGlade for wxPython or Komodo for tkinter. The more of the GUI code you can remove from your functional code the better. GUI

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Bruno Desthuilliers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stef Mientki a écrit : >(snip) >> I've been using Python for just 2 months, and didn't try any graphical >> design, > >So how can you comment on GUI programming with Python ? I think we have a language problem here (no pun intended) When Stef s

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread olsongt
On Feb 16, 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > so will you please guide me

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Dave Cook
On 2007-02-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net You might take a look at http://dabodev.com Dave Cook -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Stef Mientki schrieb: >>> - designing the GUI will cost me about 2 .. 3 times as much in Python >> >> You mean delphi here I presume? > No, but if that's your believe .. I'm sorry, that was a misreading of mine. > Some examples: > - Creating a treeview (like in the M$ explorer), with full edit >

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Peter Decker
On 2/17/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some examples: > - Creating a treeview (like in the M$ explorer), with full edit capabilities > and full drag & drop > facilities: Delphi takes about 40 lines of code (most of them even ^C ^V). > - Creating a graphical overview of relations be

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Stef Mientki a écrit : (snip) > I'm not an (educated) programmer, so I don't always use the right terms :-( > If I look at a well established program like DIA, > and see that it still can't repaint it's screen always correctly, ... I suppose you're talking about the Diagram drawing program Dia. If

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-18 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Stef Mientki wrote: > Some examples: > - Creating a treeview (like in the M$ explorer), with full edit > capabilities and full drag & drop facilities: Delphi takes about > 40 lines of code (most of them even ^C ^V). - Creating a graphical > overview of relations between database tables, which can

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:12:07 -0300, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> I would love to see: >> - a comparison between wx and gtk (QT doesn't have a very inviting >> license ;-) > I just found this: > http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits But ke

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Stef Mientki
> I would love to see: > - a comparison between wx and gtk (QT doesn't have a very inviting > license ;-) I just found this: http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/WxWidgets_Compared_To_Other_Toolkits -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Stef Mientki
>> - designing the GUI will cost me about 2 .. 3 times as much in Python > > You mean delphi here I presume? No, but if that's your believe .. Some examples: - Creating a treeview (like in the M$ explorer), with full edit capabilities and full drag & drop facilities: Delphi takes about 40 lines o

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Stef Mientki a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> Stef Mientki a écrit : >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i am unable to deciced. i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go t

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Max Wilson
On Feb 17, 1:35 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I've done extensive, cross-platform development with Qt. And can > assert that it is unmatched in productivity and feature richness, > especially when combined with python. And certainly beat VB, and most > probably even delphi

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Don Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > By 'GUI based programming language' I think tha

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread goodwolf
In your situation consider C# too. If you like python then try IronPython for .NET. I think that C++ is not ideal for you. P.S.: VB6 is NOT a real OOP language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> The final goal of programming language is (in most cases) > meant to create functional things, > that can assist people to perform their tasks. > The UI of that resulting thing should be optimal adapted to the final > audience (and task). > My audience is most comfortable with a intuitive GUI. >

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-17 Thread Stef Mientki
Peter Decker wrote: > On 2/16/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In one of the other threads, Dabo was meant as a GUI designer, >> I tried it yesterday, >> and although it looks very promising, >> at the moment this is not a graphical design environment, >> just a complex (compared t

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Decker
On 2/16/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In one of the other threads, Dabo was meant as a GUI designer, > I tried it yesterday, > and although it looks very promising, > at the moment this is not a graphical design environment, > just a complex (compared to Delphi) design environment

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Stef Mientki
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Stef Mientki a écrit : >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i >>> am unable to deciced. >>> >>> i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go >>> through with GUI based programming langu

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread bearophileHUGS
Bruno Desthuilliers: > Iftikhar: > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > > through with GUI based programming language > > "GUI based programming languages" ? What's that ? Maybe a language like Gui4cli :-) http://users.hol.gr/~dck/g4c/ Bye, bearophile -- http://ma

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Stef Mientki a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i >> am unable to deciced. >> >> i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go >> through with GUI based programming language like VB.net >> >> so will you p

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Stef Mientki wrote: > Although the GUI of Python is not as good as VB, What is the GUI of a language? Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #334: 50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Stef Mientki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > so will you please guide me which GUI based la

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i > am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language "GUI based programming languages" ? What's that ? > like V

Re: Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-02-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language > but i am unable to deciced. > > i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go > through with GUI based programming language like VB.net > > so will you p

Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

2007-02-16 Thread ifti_crazy
I am VB6 programmer and wants to start new programming language but i am unable to deciced. i have read about Python, Ruby and Visual C++. but i want to go through with GUI based programming language like VB.net so will you please guide me which GUI based language has worth with complete OOPS Cha