Is Python like VB?

[Jeff Shannon]

Tom Willis wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:45:10 -0500, Tom Willis <tom.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:20:19 +0000, Steve Horsley <shoot at the.moon> wrote:
>>
>>>Were you aware that OpenOffice.org version 2.0, which is due out soon
>>>(beta is available for download), can have python macros, as well as
>>>javascript and StarOffice Basic macros?
>>
>>http://udk.openoffice.org/python/scriptingframework/index.html
>>
>>Damn that's hot!!!!! I am tingly :)
> 
> Reply to self...
> 
> The API however, smells more like java to me than python. Alas, I will
> happily use it for many of my needs.

IIRC, Sun significantly rewrote the scripting interface to StarOffice 
before they released the codebase to OpenOffice.org.  It's hardly 
surprising to know that they did so in a very Java-centric way.  And 
given limited resources (and presumably continued guidance from Sun in 
the form of Sun developers working on OO.o), it's not too surprising 
that OpenOffice hasn't changed that much.

Jeff Shannon