On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd just follow this up by putting in a plug for Python. An advantage > of Perl/Python/Java/etc. is that they're cross-platform, as Martin > said. Another is that unless you're doing something extraordinarily > cpu-intensive, they can be pretty darned fast, even though they're > not compiled languages in the normal sense (bytecode vs. compiled). > All three support object-oriented design, if you care about that > (Java the best; Perl the worst, but it's there). My main reason > for favoring Python is that Python code is incredibly easy to read, > and very easy to generate. I've learned a bunch of different > languages; Python was by far the easiest. > > -c
Python rocks (most of the time). :) However you'll need to add GUI library on top of Python since as far as I know it doesn't have a "built in one" like VB, Visual C++, Delphi, etc. Maybe Qt with the Python Qt bindings or something along those lines. The beauty with those professional IDE's is how easy it is to create an interface using drag and drop operations and then hook up events by simply double clicking and having the event handlers added automatically. With open source, the UI development, compilation and debugging are typically three separate applications even in the case of the more fancy development environments like KDevelop. Another option that is very slick to use is the Dev-C++ IDE plus wxWidgets or Qt. You get a cross platform C++ application using a cross platform GUI library and all inside an IDE with integrated debugging, etc. It's a lot easier for the average windows developer to work in - most of them get lost when there aren't a set of buttons to click. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
