[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Mac Guikits

[Jim Harrison]

on 2/9/05 2:45 PM, Bob Ippolito at bob at redivi.com wrote:

>> The concept of an environment like REALbasic, Mac-like GUI designer,
>> editor, debugger, but which uses Python as the language sounds just
>> wonderful to me.

Perhaps in the vein of historical trivia, there have been previous ties
between REALbasic and python. Some years back there was an abortive attempt
to create a REALbasic-like development environment for python, written in
REALbasic. Though not related to that effort, Joe Strout is one of the
senior engineers at REALbasic and he had a background in python before going
to RB. Perhaps coincidentally, pythonic concepts like variants
(dynamically-typed variables) and "for each x in y" started showing up in RB
after his arrival.

No help with the current issue, sorry--this just tweaked some memories.

Jim Harrison