Python plugin

[Robin Becker]

In article <387A04AC.886DD88C at bellatlantic.net>, Steve Holden
<sholden at bellatlantic.net> writes
>In Samuel Falvo's defence, and without wishing to start a flame war,
>might I point out that he specifically mentioned his news server didn't
>show him the original article.  It might, therefore, be appropriate to
>suggest that he misunderstood your points.  To read his post as an
>attack
>shows a thinness of skin which won't get you by in the average newsgroup
>without daily psychological trauma.  Pythonistas are, in my limited
>experience, rather more polite than most.  With the exception of one
>particular group member, who can only be described as a complete
><wink>er.  But Tim appears to poke fun with a dry sense of humour
>which, as a Yorkshireman, reminds me of home.  [You had COM? You
>were lucky.  When I were a lad we had to pull objects out of the
>labraries with our bare hands and shout at them to find out how they
>worked.
>Etc.]
>
>I didn't read his post as attacking you, just expressing his (apparently
>well-founded) opinions on Corba and COM.  The nicer parts about COM are
>the ways it allows you to discover the interfaces of the objects you
>want
>to control.  The fact that it works so well with Python lends some
>credibility to the assertion that it's one of Microsoft's better ideas.
>That and, I would suggest, ODBC, which while not perfect has become a
>de facto standard primarily due to its ubefulness and ubiquity.
>
>regards
> Steve
>
>Robin Becker wrote:
>> 
>> In article <slrn87j11s.vc0.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>, Samuel A. Falvo
>> II <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> writes
>> ...
>> 
>> Don't get me wrong, but to attack me for saying I treat COM as too
>> object oriented and then attack me for being an OO neophyte seems a bit
>> silly. I'm from the fortran era, I treat COM objects as exactly that;
>> blobs with interfaces, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate nice OO
>> languages like Python. The reason I like Python is that it allows me to
>> "just do stuff".
>>

I'm sorry if I sounded too defensive. Perhaps I should regard Sam's post
as being enthusiastic rather than aggressive. Telling us we're in the
gutter of standard OO won't endear though.
-- 
Robin Becker