Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 00:22 schrieb Paul Surgeon: > 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). :)
Python rocks all the time, except when not ;-) (search for Python Zen for an explanation) > 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. There is TkInter if you enabled it at compile time. This is Pythons builtin GUI. The standard IDE Idle uses it. Yet I prefer PyQT anyway, since it integrates well with the KDE look and feel. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- 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
