Python good for translating GUI built in Java?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <slrn8cts8n.1e9.daniels at localhost.localdomain>,
Alan Daniels <daniels at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>My own (unsubstantiated) theory is that Sun has been so busy
>reinventing the wheel for every last possible facet of computing that
>they've never had the time to get the bugs out. Case in point: Swing,
>and even AWT. Wasn't Sun already sponsoring Osterhout and his work on
>Tcl/Tk? Why didn't they just use *that*? Python was able to make an OO
>wrapper around Tk, so why not Java? Why did they have to start from
>scratch? Same thing in other areas, too: Rather than put an OO wrapper
>around OpenGL, they invent their own from-the-ground-up 3D API that
>nobody uses, rather than Postscript as an imaging model they invent
>Java2D, etc etc. If they'd used the working cross-platform foundations
>that were already out there and working, Java would be a lot stabler
>by now.
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>Reinvent-too-many-wheels-at-once-and-some-will-wobble'ly yours,
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You've correctly framed the questions.  To this
list, by the way, you might add, Why did Sun en-
courage Netscape to invent JavaScript when
considerably more mature scripting languages
were available off-the-shelf?  Part of the answer
is as you've hinted:  the principals involved
have received and do receive more rewards from
reinvention than from stability.
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