OO misconceptions

[Peter Hansen]

Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> 
> > Perl, in this case (factory automation) would
> > definitely *not* have been a better choice, even in your estimation.
> 
> Fair enough.  =)   Python does sound like a good choice in this case,
> despite Perl's strength in sockets.

In this case, more than anything else, the driving factor was
the easy ability to wrap third-party DLLs (e.g. for a GPIB 
interface card) with calldll and make a beautiful object-oriented
wrapper to talk to instruments on the bus.  I knew I would
be able to make a maintainable and flexible system which 
newcomers (new developers that is) could learn to use easily 
and continue growing.  At the time, putting a Tkinter
interface on it quickly was an attractive option, although
I've since halted work on that development path until we
have time to retool around the web paradigm instead...

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Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
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