Python versus Perl ?

[Caleb Hattingh]

Joe, thanks

Yes, I am on the P4D mailing list :)  What you didn't say was that the  
"python for delphi" extensions are *awesome*.  full two-way communication,  
and you get it all by drag&dropping a little component widget onto your  
form in the IDE.  Amazing.

However...

Dll's can be used by things other than python, which is the main reason  
why we would go that route.  However, with all the .NET hoopla,  maybe  
IronPython and a .NET dll would be the way to go in the future.  I'm still  
a little uneasy about adopting .NET as a standard just yet...

I should give it some more thought anyways.

Thanks again
Caleb

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:38:37 -0500, Joe Francia  
<gmane-schpam at joefrancia.com> wrote:

> Caleb Hattingh wrote:
>> As you might imagine, I think about this constantly.  However, there
>> are many other issues that make it complicated, such as having to work
>> in a team where the average guy knows pascal well (we're just a bunch
>> of chemical engineers), but has never even heard of python.  Plus, were
>> I to go this type of route, I would almost definitely code the binary
>> modules in Delphi or FreePascal, make a DLL and use ctypes to call it.
>> I do not know C and have no desire to learn now :)    On the other
>> hand, I know pascal quite well.
>>  keep well
>> Caleb
>>
>
> You could always code Python extensions directly in Delphi:
>
> http://membres.lycos.fr/marat/delphi/python.htm
> http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/PythonDelphiLatest.htm
>
> Demo09 (look in demodll.dpr & module.pas) in the download tells you how.
>
> Peace,
> Joe
>