Dabo in 30 seconds?

[Cliff Wells]

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 20:29 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
> I am going to go ahead and throw out Dabo with all of the others that claim 
> quick development of an application. You try them and then you get bugs, 
> bugs, bugs. Or they don't compile without 16000 dependencies. Forget it. My 
> advice is to choose something, one thing, that is REAL standard, and in the 
> standard library (e.g. Tkinter). And go for it. Learn it inside and out--it 
> will always be there for you. It is the green, green grass of home, not that 
> greener grass on the other side of the hill. Don't listen to the guys that 
> says this one is crap or that one isn't. Dropping one and learning another is 
> just pain. I think this is a developer trick, to keep you at war with 
> yourself. The more you have internal conflict the more you will be looking 
> for an App framework to solve your inner problems, and that keeps these guys 
> in business--the business of wrecking souls.

Then why are you using Python at all?  Shouldn't you be in the "safe
home" of Java or Visual Basic, where "standards" are all you have?


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