Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-09 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... |> I think that at one time, scripting languages was something that lived |> within other programs, like Office, and couldn't be used by themselves |> without running it inside that program, and as thus

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Rubin
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tcl is an early example of a something that started as a "reusable > command language" and turned into a "real programming language" > along the way: Yes, that's why tcl is such an awful language. And it happens all the time. It's better to just star

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-09 Thread Mike Meyer
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually >> do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing >> ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no >> new state. /.../ O

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-09 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > > > "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually > > do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing > > ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no > > new state. /.../ Of course, there is nothing to stop a > >

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-09 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually > do not introduce new components but simply "wire" existing > ones. Scripts can be seen as introducing behavior but no > new state. /.../ Of course, there is nothing to stop a > "scripting" langua

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > In other words, what is the difference between a "scripting language" > and a "programming language". here's one useful way to look at things: "Unlike mainstream component programming, scripts usually do not introduce new components but simply "wire" exis

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Lasse_Vgsther_Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Brandon K wrote: |> Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language |> while Visual Basic is in the "software development" section. Python so |> outdoes VB in every way shape and form. | | | In that respect I would very

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
> In other words, what is the difference between a "scripting language" > and a "programming language". > Good point. == Posted via Newsgroups.com - Usenet Access to over 100,000 Newsgroups == Get Anonymous, Uncensored, Access to West and East Coast Server Farms! == Highest Rete

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Brandon K wrote: > Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language > while Visual Basic is in the "software development" section. Python so > outdoes VB in every way shape and form. > In that respect I would very much like to see a definition of "scripting language" as w

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go > there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer > all kinds of help, and for those of you who just like to talk, there's > a chit chat section just for you...Just remember that

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language while Visual Basic is in the "software development" section. Python so outdoes VB in every way shape and form. > I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go > there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (clic

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > > >>Don't think so matey. > > > oh, come on. a site run by some random guy in North Carolina has to be > safer, faster and more reliable than a distributed communication system that > has been around since that guy was born... Yes, of co

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-10-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go > there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer > all kinds of help, and for those of you who just like to talk, there's > a chit chat secti

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Michael Goettsche wrote: > Besides that, it's cheap advertising. Would it have been harder to post the > direct forum link than to link to his company's website? company? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > Don't think so matey. oh, come on. a site run by some random guy in North Carolina has to be safer, faster and more reliable than a distributed communication system that has been around since that guy was born... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Goettsche
On Saturday 08 October 2005 21:15, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go > > there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer > > all kinds of help, and for those of you who just lik

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go > there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer > all kinds of help, and for those of you who just like to talk, there's > a chit chat section just for you...Just remember that

new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread csheppard91
I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer all kinds of help, and for those of you who just like to talk, there's a chit chat section just for you...Just remember that forum communication is much easi