Re: Money Program Does Linux

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:19:59PM +0000, Martin P Holland wrote:
> I have been playing around with python. It is extremely fast to develop with
> and the code that is produced is readable and reusable (unlike perl). Together
> with the nice GUI toolkits that are out there (I use the qt/kde bindings which
> are excellent but I presume the gtk ones work too) you can have a nice looking
> app up and running in next to no time. All that with no waiting for it to
> compile (big issue on my p120) and no core dumps.

	I have played around with it for a while. Extremely useful
because you can include C/Fortran code into it automatically (much like
scilab). Besides, you get "toolboxes" for pretty much everything.

> I'm using the standard C implementation rather than the Java one. Is
> there any reason why you mentioned JPython rather than Python?

	So do I, but I mentioned JPython as an option for rapid Java
applet implementation. Besides, python *is* inherently multiplatform,
which is nice. Specially if you use something like the wxpython (or
something with wx, can't remember right now), where even the look of the
interface is portable. So you only need to write code once, and it will
work out of the box on a UN*X box, Windoze, Mac... This can be *very*
handy, as even the GUI is portable.

	For examles of python, all you redhat people, check the RH
configuration panel. It used to be written in Python AFAIK :)
	
	Best wishes,
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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