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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Eric Bruning wrote:
In your lightning talk on the interactive shell, you wrote: "What do we gain with GUIs? -Pretty look and feel -Doesn't make you more productive/richer: no economic or academic incentive"
I guess that was just me being provocative as usual. :). That said, I would have fully agreed with you a month ago, but I came to realize that there is a heavy cost you pay by sitting in a GUI: you now have to deal with screen refresh, event-processing, and if your calculations are sitting in the same Python process, this slows them down. So I guess my point is that to pay this price, and still have a valuable scientific tools, you need a better incentive than looking pretty, you need to be able to solve additional problems, and this come with adding additional features. Gaƫl