WxPython versus Tkinter.

Bob Martin bob.martin at excite.com
Tue Jan 25 03:02:28 EST 2011


in 650595 20110124 192332 Bryan <bryan.oakley at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jan 24, 12:05=A0pm, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 12:00=A0pm, Bryan <bryan.oak... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Accessibility, like internationalization, is something few programmers
>> > spend much time thinking about.
>>
>> Thats another uninformed statement by you we can add to the mountains
>> of useless cruft you have offered so far. Unicode IS
>> internationalization and Guido thought it was SO important that
>> Python3000 auto converts all strings to Unicode strings. Obviously he
>> is moving us toward full Unicode only in the future (AS SHOULD ALL
>> IMPLEMENTATIONS!). We need one and only one obvious way to do it. And
>> Unicode is that way.
>
>Ok, great. You've identified one programmer who thinks about
>internationalization. Not much of a compelling argument there.
>
>However, I think you missed my point. My point wasn't that people like
>Guido don't think of these topics. It's that the people in the
>trenches who use these tools don't think about these topics. How many
>of your co-workers actively think about internationalization and
>accessibility? I'm guessing none, but maybe you're lucking and work in
>a particularly enlightened team. I've perhaps worked closely with a
>few hundred programmers in my career, and very few of them thought of
>these subjects. In my experience it's just not something the
>programmer in the trenches thinks about. That is the point I was
>trying to make.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you here.  I spent my working life as a programmer
with a very large multi-national IT company and all software had to be fully
"internationalized" (otherwise known as NLS) or it didn't get used.  
Do you think the whole world speaks US English? 



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