At 15:39 11/08/2004 -0400, Troy Rollins wrote:
On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:30 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I concur heartily with all that Alex said about RR and Python.
Really? You consider Rev particularly strong in Imaging and Multimedia too?
I've been biting my tongue on that one.
Yeah - I figured a few people might rise to that one, based on recent discussion on this list. I do not have the experience with other tools mentioned recently that are strong in this area. I even put in the caveat
...... multimedia (other on the list might disagree because they are experienced in other tools in that area, where I'm not).
But I still think it's true in the context of Kevin's question - he said
I'm in the process of studying Tcl/Tk, and also plan to look at C++ (Qt), Java (Swing) and Python (wxPython).
and I have no doubt that RR is streets ahead of any of those for multimedia. Imaging might arguable using PIL or similar - but I'm pretty sure RR is well ahead for multimedia.
You went on to say ....
String handling, yes, network and internet, yes, file system, yes... but Imaging and Multimedia?
Actually, I don't think RR excels at network and internet; it does them OK, but without broader library support it can't be said to excel. (e.g. NNTP, NTP, IMAP, POP3, email header parsers, Mime-type handling, etc.). Any of those could built in RR (perhaps more easily than in many other languages), but until they are supported in the standard package, or in well organized add-ons, RR is still lagging.
-- Alex.
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