Suffering For Your Art

[Dan Parisien]

Lyle Johnson wrote:

> When I first started looking at Python a few years back I had to get past
> the mental block that Python was a "scripting" language and was therefore
> inherently less powerful than the more traditional "compiled" languages
> (e.g. C/C++ or Fortran). So while it was OK for small or even moderately
> sized programming tasks, there's no way you'd write a full-blown
> application in Python. 

I am. A rather large project as well that hits consumers as well as 
businesses. Python has been the breath of fresh air I've always wished 
programming could be. Because of Python, we are going to be able to produce 
some incredible applications using
-Python Sockets and cPickle
-Shelve (Robin Dunn's bsddb3.dbshelve which is excellent btw)
-Dictionaries whose keys are arbitrary methods/functions as dynamic message 
handlers
- FXPy (which you coded :) which comes to a 1.5MB full featured, cross 
platform GUI toolkit
- RExec

We learned about Python in January, switched our entire project from c++ 
(losing a large amount of code), and we hope to have a beta out relatively 
soon (weeks instead of months). I always tell my programmer friends, to 
learn of python is to learn python.

Dan