Event-driven GUIs, PythonWorks, Boa, wxWindows; future directions of event-driven Python?

[Steve Holden]

Oh. You mean ".NET" isn't Microsoft marketing-speak for "Not Yet"?

tongue-in-cheek-ly y'rs  - steve
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"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul Prescod" <paulp at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.992841807.926.python-list at python.org...
>     [mostly snipped excellent explanation]
> > Visual Python is an IDE plug-in for Visual Studio.NET. Visual Studio.NET
> > is an IDE from Microsoft that has the four letters .NET at the end to
> > convince you that it is sufficiently different from Visual Studio 7 that
>
> I think you mean 6 where you wrote 7 here...?
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> > you should buy it. You can develop .NET applications with Visual Studio
> > .NET but you can also develop old fashioned Windows applications or raw
>
> I find it incredible that MS mktg doesn't understand the deep (and
> justified on the burned-once principle) *CONSERVATISM* of many, many
> development organizations.  Those "four letters at the end", as you
> so well put it, ARE convincing many that the IDE "is sufficiently
> different from VS6" that they *WON'T* buy it -- or, at least, not yet.
>
> If they've made the strategic decision not to develop for the .NET
> platform YET (quite a reasonable one for many development orgs at
> this point -- experimentation is one thing, but production SW on
> which big money depends needs to proceed very cautiously), and the
> 'brilliant' folks at MS mktg manage to convince them that VS.NET
> *IS* about .NET, then it follows that development will remain on
> good old VS6 -- period.  *sigh*.  What a mktg *GOOF*...!-(
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> Alex
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