[openbeos] Re: GUI, scripting, etc

From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:35:23 +0200 (MEST)

/bin/bash POWAHHHHHHHH !!!

Erf, big troll sorry; commign back from week end :^)

btw. any news on the parallel port ?
I'll read all benewsletter talking about PCI and ISA, driver, bus manager...
surely there's some things I missed... then check some driver codes.

François.

En réponse à Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> NOOOOO!!! Not the scripting wars! :-)
> For those who don't remember, there was a ... I think month long
> conversations
> running back and forth on BeDevTalk back in the 90's about this.
> The Be Line (which I happened to agree with) was that including a
> scripting language
> doesn't make sense. Why? 
> 1) Picking one rules out others. You like Python. Cool. Others like
> ARexx. Others like other things.
> 2) The Scripting API allows you to use many different scripting
> languages. Personally, I think that this might be the coolest piece of
> all. You like Python? I like AWK. We can write for each other's apps, if
> they are scriptable.
> 3) No matter which one you choose, someone will be unhappy.
> 
> Personally, I think that Be was wise to be scripting language
> agnostic.
> OTOH, distros of OBOS could include any, all or no scripting
> languages.
> 
> >I would personally love to see Bethon (the Be API bindings for python),
> 
> >or something like it included in the obos thing.
> >Python is a ridiculously powerful and simple language and making beos
> 
> >GUI apps with it is a breeze.  Even outside the 
> >bindings to the API, python is quite powerful in its own right.  Its 
> >use extends far beyond doing GUI construction.  And 
> >as near as I can tell, pyhton could be compiled on whatever platforms
> 
> >obos ends up running on, which would make the
> >app nice and crossplatformy.
> >I just posted my first app to bebits, and it was done entirely in 
> >python.  As a total newbie to programming and OOP and
> > all that jazz, I can attest to the ease of this language, not to 
> >mention the Be API.
> >
> >Anyway...some thoughts
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

References:
- [openbeos] Re: GUI, scripting, etc
  - From: Michael Phipps

[openbeos] Re: GUI, scripting, etc

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