Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-12 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in Brandon J. Van Every wrote: I believe Dreamweaver-esque. I see myself writing articles and eventually doing snazzy eye candy layouts. I do not see myself engaging in elaborate flow control or anything terribly programmatic. I want to concentrate

Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-11 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Ron_Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in http://www.igda.org/seattle/ http://www.cyphondesign.com/ http://www.alphageeksinc.com/ http://www.gamasutra.com These top three where done with text editors. If you view the source, you will notice the formatting has good consistent indenting and there

Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-11 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Pierre-Fr=E9d=E9ric_Caillaud?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ideally, I would like an open source website + html design tool implemented in Python didn't you just say that ideally, you wanted a tool written in lisp or scheme? I honestly got a little

web authoring tools

2005-04-10 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
As is easily noticed, my website sucks. Enough people keep ragging on me about it, that maybe I'll up and do something about it. However, I currently have FrontPage 2000 and I hate it. Ideally, I would like an open source website + html design tool implemented in Python, so that possibly

Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like

2005-03-15 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
James Graves wrote: So with Python 3000, you're going to end up with a language just as big as CL, but without the most fundamental building blocks. Ah well, to each his own. Preventing people from building things from scratch is probably an industrial advantage. Look how fragmented the

compiled open source Windows lisp (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)

2005-03-15 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
James Graves wrote: If you want to do application development, Common Lisp is where it's at, no doubt about it. There are more and better libraries for CL these days, and they are easier to install and manage with tools like ASDF. Multiple open-source implementations, covering the most

Re: Beware complexity

2005-03-13 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Philip Smith wrote: Conventions on type conversion are just one example. Without using strict coding conventions the richness of the language could, and often did, result in ambiguity. In my experience too C++ has defeated its own object (eg portability) - I've given up in many cases