Python is cool!!

[Fuzzyman]

On Mar 23, 10:04 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> > On 23/03/2010 16:55, Jose Manuel wrote:
>
> >> I have been learning Python, and it is amazing .... I am using the
> >> tutorial that comes with the official distribution.
>
> >> At the end my goal is to develop applied mathematic in engineering
> >> applications to be published on the Web, specially on app. oriented to
> >> simulations and control systems, I was about to start learning Java
> >> but I found Python which seems easier to learn that Java.
>
> >> Would it be easy to integrate Python in Web pages with HTML? I have
> >> read many info on Internet saying it is, and I hope so ....
>
> > You probably want to be looking at IronPython and Silverlight.
> > In fact, the prolific Michael Foord has already produced an
> > example of this, which gives you the Python tutorial online!
>
> >  http://trypython.org
>
> > TJG
>
> Granted that I know next to nothing about webwork, but
> is there a reason why you recommended a competing,
> nonstandard technology rather than simply pointing him
> towards more standards compliant tools that exist to do
> exactly what he asked for? Seems a bit dodgy to
> advocate a closed solution when the alternative has 100%
> market share.
>


Maybe because it is a good tool and for the specific task it achieves
there is nothing close...

The closest is Skulpt which is very much an incomplete implementation
of Python that runs in the browser.

Michael Foord

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