[Edu-sig] re: modelling

[Arthur_Siegel@rsmi.com]

An effort that seems quite relevant to the 
modelling thread.

http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/parrot/intro.html

>> >1. What is Parrot?
>>>Parrot is a text-based GUI builder, written by Philip Hunt. 
>>>It is intended to be used by programmers writing GUI applications. 

>>>Parrot is written in Python, and licenced under the GNU GPL.
>>> Parrot uses version 0.5 of John Aycock's SPARK parsing framework, 
>>>which is described in his paper Compiling Little Languages in Python. 


To me a quite Pythonic approach to the issue of
GUI building.

The modelling and the implementation are close to
being one process.  Analagous to Pythonic math - 
describe the problem and solve it in a fell swoop.

And a tool such as this  -  when more fully developed - 
will allow one to explore the various GUI alternatives without 
making a substantial upfront commitment to the learning 
curve that each's API presents. 

For me, that has been the beauty of learning Python.
The efficiency, as both a learning and implementation
tool.

Works more and more in the real world as a sort of a meta-API. 

Efficieny *is* good.

As we are all busy folks.
To me a quite Pythonic approach to the issue of
GUI building.

The modelling and the implementation are close to
being one process.  Analagous to Pythonic math - 
describe the problem and solve it in a fell swoop.

And a tool such as this allows one to explore the various 
GUI alternatives without making a substantial upfront 
commitment to tackle the learning curve that each's 
API presents. 

For me, that has been the beauty of learning Python.
The efficiency, as both a learning and implementation
tool.

Works more and more in the real world as a sort of a meta-API. 


ART