Re: Money Program Does Linux

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

>
>	I suppose that what you mean there is that Linux lacks some sort
>of visual Basic so that people can't just write all this
>teach-yourself-time-management programs which both interactive and
>multimedia (as seen on the box of *every* kind of software  you buy
>nowadays). If someone wants to produce something good and easily in this
>fashion on Linux, one could use JPython <http://www.python.org>. This is
>simple, OO and also has a Numerical extension to it (OK, you could also
>use perl, but...). That's if you *need* the multimedia/point and click
>and use from within any browser. And developing something *IS* fast.

I have been playing around with python. It is extremely fast to develop with
and the code that is produced is readable and reusable (unlike perl). Together
with the nice GUI toolkits that are out there (I use the qt/kde bindings which
are excellent but I presume the gtk ones work too) you can have a nice looking
app up and running in next to no time. All that with no waiting for it to
compile (big issue on my p120) and no core dumps.

I'm using the standard C implementation rather than the Java one. Is
there any reason why you mentioned JPython rather than Python?

atb
Martin
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