What does Python fix?

[Jason Orendorff]

Garry Hodgson wrote:
> Courageous wrote:
> > >Not sure what problems you've run into.
> > 
> > Oh, nothing like you're thinking. I'm the author of a rapid prototyping
> > toolkit built using Swing. Swing has good API appeal. It's 
> > slow, however,
> > and having dealt with Swing for some time, I decided that it's slowness
> > is in part due to its internal design approach.
> 
> i've been away from java for a while.
> is swing still built on top of the pathetic AWT?

Yes.  To put it another way, the latest version of Swing
still works with JDK 1.1.8.

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/