Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Kevin Altis]

I couldn't agree more. Thus you won't be surprised that in many ways that is
the sweet spot that PythonCard is aiming at. You'll need wxPython 2.3.2 or
higher and Python 2.x to give it a try, but you can at least look at screen
shots if nothing else.

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/

We are moving towards a component model, which will give you many of the
capabilities you are familiar with from using COM. There is a layout editor
(the resourceEditor sample) and automatic event binding and event handlers
that should look a lot like what you have used with VB. You can already
build standalone Windows executables using py2exe.

Input and criticism are welcome.

ka

"Resty Cena" <rcena at epcor.ca> wrote in message
news:458b194a.0112282052.1123341 at posting.google.com...
> The real source of growth for both Python and Ruby are the 3M VB
> developers worldwide. Whichever can provide what it is that VB
> developers like about VB on top of what Python and Ruby natively offer
> will hit the jackpot. To me these are: (a) Visual drag-and-drop
> application builder with data aware controls, and (b) good support for
> the big databases (Oracle, Sybase, Informix). I'm going through the
> gui chapters of Mark Lutz' PP2E, and while I can see that handcrafting
> gui this way gives me a lot of control, I'm thinking I don't want to
> do this -- I'm a database application developer. I want to write a
> dynamic work order system and I have no ambition to become a system
> tool maker. And so do the 3M VB developers.
>
> VB used to be a toy language. Not too long ago no respectable company
> would use VB for their corporate systems. It did not start to become
> an enterprise solution until VB3. What happened there?
>
> VB 6 will be retired in favor of VB.NET. Personally I think that the
> direction VB has taken, towards a verbose C#, is misguided. VB should
> have evolved into something like Python or Ruby. With VB.NET, VB
> programmers will ask, "What's the point?" Might as well dive into C#.
> Or look around for something else.
>
> Hopefully by that time -- 18 months from now? -- Python and/or Ruby
> will have what it is VB programmers cannot live without.
>
> Folks, come up with (a) and (b) above, then start posting at c.l.vb.
>
>
> Paul Prescod <paul at prescod.net> wrote in message
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> > Dave Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > ... Instead, Ruby will attract folks from outside the
> > > Python world. Ruby and Python differ in philosophy and _feel_. Some
> > > folks like one, some the other. I don't see it as competition. I see
> > > it as choice.
> >
> > Is there really a difference? Pepsi and Coke are choices. They are also
> > in competition. They have a somewhat different taste but are more
> > similar than different. In the long run, there will come a day when
> > they've taken as much of the market share of other drinks away as they
> > will, and the primary competition will be between the two of them.
> >
> >  Paul Prescod