On Aug 15, 5:32 pm, Jaseem <jas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is python similar to actionscript 3.0
For some very rough sense of "similar" it might be, but not really. > Which is better to create a rich gui internet application? > Is it AS 3.0 with flex or python with its GUI libs? Python doesn't run in your typical web browser, but it is common to use Python for doing the server-side programming, along with a Python- based web development framework, such as Django. You could use Jython to make a JVM applet that would run in a browser, but JVM applets aren't very popular for a variety of reasons, and I doubt the performance would be very good. > Is python in demand? Yes, it's a popular language. > Heard that python is similar to lisp. Kind of. Not any more so that JavaScript is, though, for instance. > But both python and AS 3.0 is almost identical. No, Python and ActionScript are not "almost identical". > Which is more similar to lisp are powerful? They both have their similarities and differences from Lisp. I think it would be impossible to say which one is more similar to Lisp. In general, Python is in my opinion more pleasant to program in than ActionScript, but Python is not generally used for client-side browser code. I think the future of client-side browser programming is actually JavaScript, not ActionScript, though that future may morph into one that mostly uses JavaScript as a virtual machine. This is the approach that Google Web Toolkit takes. It lets you write your client-side code in Java, and that is then compiled into JavaScript. |>ouglas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
