Dan Shafer wrote:
On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:25 AM, MisterX wrote:
Just before I climbed on the Rev bandwagon -- a move I do not regret, just to be clear -- I was working on an Open Source Python project called PythonCard, an attempt to reproduce some of the ease of development of HyperCard with a fully object-oriented scripting language underneath.Maybe Rev can drive the Python GUI somewhere...
ditto (though much more recently)
Kevin Altis, who wrote one of the premier HyperCard products, a truly powerful PIM (Personal Information Manager), was heading up that project. I think he has sort of set it aside for the moment as he's taken up the unpaid cause of evangelizing Python more broadly, a move he felt was necessary before PythonCard could become real.
Kevin A. asked a couple of days ago (on the Pythoncard mail list) for peoples' "gripes and likes", so that he can prioritize issues heading towards a "1.0" release, so there's actually quite a bit of activity going on right now, after a few quiet months.
MHO - Pythoncard makes a great attempt to simplify working with wxPython (and allows you to reach through and use wxPython when necessary); it makes it natural to produce apps which feel much more "native" than RunRev; the extent of the built-in libraries and easy access to standard libraries ("externals") are wonderful; and, finally, the ease of doing multi-person projects is a joy. Oh and I should mention - I've only encountered 3 or 4 of bugs in Pythoncard and the underlying libraries, and I either fixed them myself or got fixes for the others via the mailing list within a couple of days.
But on the other hand, the resource editor and IDE just feel so clunky and old-fashioned compared to Rev that it is a joy to fire up the Rev IDE again after a Python project .... and Rev encourages simple solutions, while Python supports my natural inclination to be over-complex.
I guess when the glass is half-full, I notice that I enjoy programming in both of them - unlike most of the languages and environments I've used.
And when the glass is half-empty, I regret that I can't have the ideal combination of the two.
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