Python is similar to VFP in many ways - mostly in the way you can run it. You can create a "prg" which is a "py" and just do a "python myprg.py" and it runs. It also gives you a traceback which will point you quickly to any errors.
Once you have established your modules you can package them in all sorts of ways - just like VFP. The major difference I see is that Python is "batteries included" which means almost everything you can do is included in the language itself. The Python community is *HUGE* and there is literally tons of help. And then there are an incredible amount of third party "Packages" that just wrap Python of which Dabo is an example. I am an old guy that has been kicking around since punched cards and I feel like a kid in a candy store. I'll go one step farther and then put this thread to bed. Whil Hentzen started this Linux stuff for the VFP crowd and I know that Ed and Paul and Ted and Kevin and many others are using all sorts of "distros" and other OS's in addition to M$. I never had any compelling reason to investigate them because I was busy shipping applications and maintaining applications using VFP. When Vista came along I had to make some decisions about how I will support my customers. My research convinced me that Python would be a viable language for anything I will want to do with any of my customers. I have a flagship account that is moving to the latest SQL Server and Vista for all of their clients. My new applications need to be ready. Along the way I discovered Ubuntu 7.10. My laptop has an XP partition for accessing corporate networks and Ubuntu on the other partition. In Ubuntu I have two Virtual Boxes one for XP development and one for XP testing. I chose 4 desktops (you can choose as many as you can stand) which I access by clicking Ctrl + Alt + Right or Left. Since I set up CompBiz it does the cube thing that many of you have seen in demos. So I can have Ubuntu with FireFox on one desktop, XP development on another, XP test environment on another, and Python on the fourth. This is a very productive environment for me and I am in the process of setting up this computer (my main development machine) the same way. Linux may have not been ready for prime time in even the recent past, but as far as I am concerned it puts the competition to shame in its current state. There are a lot of things I like about Ubuntu that are not available in a comparable M$ environment. This is my experience and your mileage may vary! Maybe we should all get out more. ;^) Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Steve Ellenoff wrote: > Thanks for the excellent clarifications. I look forward to trying it > out someday, sounds great. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
