Sort-of OT: Learning Python

[Russ McBride]

Hey Geoff,

Thanks for the link.  I always appreciate those kinds of posts.  I  
don't think I've heard a whole lot of great things about wxWidgets.

As a sidenote-- a lot of people who've used Python have moved to Ruby  
and a lot of people who've been stuck using Java have fallen in love  
with Ruby (me included).  Simple, powerful, clean syntax, great  
development community.  Truly a joy to program in.  My (long-term)  
goal is to be able to mix Transcript and Ruby in my runrev apps.  If  
anyone has any ideas or pointers about writing an external to do this  
I'm keenly interested!

Cheers,
russ



On May 4, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:

> Those of you who know me know that I am always fascinated by  
> different programming languages. I've programmed in more than a  
> few, but read up on dozens. Lately I've been taking a stab at Python.
>
> I'm keeping track of progress at http://learningpython.wordpress.com/
>
> So far it's mostly gripes and rants ;-)
>
> The reason I say sort-of off topic is that I'm making no secret of  
> the fact that I come from a Revolution background. The latest post  
> compares the out-of-the-box experience between Rev and a Python  
> IDE. In Rev, installation and building a standalone application  
> takes 16 steps, including retrieving and entering the demo license  
> code. In Python, after 10 steps I have downloaded nothing,  
> installed nothing, and built nothing, have gone down a blind alley  
> or two, and have more questions than I started with.
>
> When I get past the install and start describing actually  
> programming in Python, it should be better.
>
> In any case, feel free to have a look and post feedback, even if  
> it's just to point out where I went wrong in the Python install  
> process ;-)
>
> regards,
>
> Geoff
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Russ McBride
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