Is Python really a scripting language?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> (JN) wrote:

>JN>     There's CORBA, for example, and in theory
>JN> you can script OpenOffice and Gnome via CORBA.  But nobody does that.
>JN> Exercise: write a Python program to convert a ".doc" file to a ".pdf"
>JN> file by invoking OpenOffice via CORBA.  At least in theory, this is
>JN> possible.  All the necessary parts supposedly exist.  Somebody
>JN> tried back in 2003, but gave up. See
>JN> "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/198094.html"

[Nitpicking] Scripting Openoffice.org (!) is with UNO, not Corba.
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