Python and Rev

[Alex Tweedly]

Dan Shafer wrote:

>
> On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:25 AM, MisterX wrote:
>
>> Maybe Rev can drive the Python GUI somewhere...
>>
> 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. 

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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