* Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060503 09:10]:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 6:45:30 PM, you wrote:
>
> TJ> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com/demo/fdb.py.html
>
> TJ> Will show output from running module stand-alone.
> TJ> tim
>
> I'm sure REBOL can do better. See:
>
> http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/MD3/emitters/wetan.html
:-) Oh I *know* it can. Anything that I can do in python, I can do
more efficiently in rebol. I *do* like the python OOP engineering,
tho'.... and I like the python
if __name__=="__main__":
feature, which could be replicated with rebol, altho' I haven't
thought much about how to do it.
But here's the rub:
The python module demonstrated here was built by me for a specific
project. The client is very computer literate and is a former
programmer. His concern (and I concur) is that the relative obscurity
of rebol is trumped by python's status as a "household name in web
programming". *And* he wants to be able to distribute most of the code
from the project to others.
Therefore, it was concluded that python, perl and javascript be the
languages for any distributed source. On the other hand, the parser
did not need to be distributed and we settled on rebol for that so I
could at least have a little fun!
Now read on Gabriele, 'cuz you're going to like what follows.
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Part of this project is to provided dynamically generated pdf. I
played with the reportlab python module and although it was workable,
I felt that the interface was even more unwieldy than HtmlGen, for
instance, and the developers were not particularly helpful.
I have convinced my client that pdf-maker was the way to go, for the
following reasons:
1)Cost savings in coding time.
2)The fact that you have done this with a *dialect* and provided
excellent documentation should ensure that anyone following me on
this doesn't have to know the all the details of rebol, but just
understand the dialect.
So the pdf part of this project will be in rebol
Good work Gabriele.
cheers
tim (must see more of makedoc3)
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