Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-10, Ashish Hanwadikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, Tk has been largely abandoned in favor of a native >> GTK+ binding >> >> http://www.stklos.org/ > > I couldn't find any documentation on stklos (other than a few > examples) regarding its gtk+ binding. Could you please point

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-10 Thread Ashish Hanwadikar
"Grant Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 2007-10-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does scheme have a gui library? > > Yes. It had a far, far better Tk binding than Python. > > http://kaolin.unice.fr/STk/ > > I've used both for real-wor

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comparing apples with apples, how do you compare the scheme > gui library with wxpython ? Isnt it better than Tkinter ? I haven't used the newer Scheme GUI bindings. I switched from STk to tkinter, and then from tkinter to PyGTK and w

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-09 Thread Joel J. Adamson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: >> "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Does scheme have a gui library? Scheme is not a language, it's a standard for implementation. How much implementors choose to implement is enti

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-09 Thread J. Clifford Dyer
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:28:00AM -0500, Harold Ancell wrote regarding Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?: > > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:28:53 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: > > >

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-09 Thread Harold Ancell
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:28:53 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: >> "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I don't think your speculations makes very much sence. >> Amen. >> And, in any case, there's no need to speculate.

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 9:04 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does scheme have a gui library? > > Yes. It had a far, far better Tk binding than Python. > > http://kaolin.unice.fr/STk/ > > I've used both for real-world applications,

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does scheme have a gui library? Yes. It had a far, far better Tk binding than Python. http://kaolin.unice.fr/STk/ I've used both for real-world applications, and STk was _miles_ ahead of tkinter. It was a real, native binding to

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: > "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I don't think your speculations makes very much sence. > > Amen. > > And, in any case, there's no need to speculate. MIT has published, on their > web site, pages and pages of ratio