High-level languages, large projects, GNOME and the .NET controversy

[Thomas Guettler]

Paul Boddie wrote:

> Slightly off-topic, but the recent controversy stirred up by Miguel de
> Icaza and Richard Stallman on the future of GNOME and its relation to
> .NET technologies produced an interesting response:
> 
>   http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1536255&mode=nocomment
> 
> Here's the relevant section:


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Would be nice to use perl libraries in python. But I think that can
be done easier without CIL (Common Intermediate Language. AFAIK somthing 
like bytecode in java or .pyc).


Would be nice to have the intellisence (dropdown-list if you type 
object.) of the Visual Studio. Is there already something like this?


Would be nice to have a component architecture which allows 
plug-and-play usage of things like e.g. html-editor. On the shell level
integration is easy. Just use popen(), but with GUIs it is more difficult.

thomas