From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14034 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2003 15:31:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14026 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 15:31:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mwinf0602.wanadoo.fr) (193.252.22.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 15:31:39 -0000 Received: from bboett.dyndns.org (AStrasbourg-206-1-4-52.w80-11.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.11.26.52]) by mwinf0602.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id A85E6540027E for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:31:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by bboett.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F3712F43; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:31:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:44:00 -0000 To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: OT Python stuff (was RE: Python in Xconq) Message-ID: <20031119153130.GM387@adlp.org> Reply-To: bboett@adlp.org Mail-Followup-To: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org, xconq7@sources.redhat.com References: <16314.7906.67114.244055@flacy.home.flacy> <000501c3aeaf$d2c791b0$6401a8c0@Win2k> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c3aeaf$d2c791b0$6401a8c0@Win2k> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: bboett@bboett.dyndns.org (Bruno Boettcher) X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00792.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:14:26AM -0800, Erik Jessen wrote: > @files = Find(); yup :D :D > Seriously, any OO language is preferred (IMHO), because it will be more > maintainable (C++?). uhm uhm perl is gettin OO'ish ;) and its not the language that causes most problems but the programmers and their lack of discipline, that's why you get the impression that more restrictive languages are easier mantained, but its an impression.... i have a C++ project to take over and its utter horror.... a perfect example of commercially produced 'high efficiency' and 'professional' piece of software.... > And a scripting language is seriously preferred, because it will permit > so much more stuff. yah :D > If we add a scripting language, then I would submit that we write a > simple porting script to convert GDL to that language, and drop GDL. > IMHO, GDL is just a way to fill in data-structures, and any language can > do that. oh? that sounds like a nice idea? > A nice GUI-builder (anything well-known & portable like TCL) would be > very useful, because the scripting language could then create new popups > as needed, and if we're aiming for flexibility, then people who do > political games are going to have lots of popups saying "Country X has > proposed trading 3 steel, 4 oil and 5 herds of cattle, in return for a > peace treaty. > What is your answer?". uhm perl-gtk, perl-tk? -- ciao bboett ============================================================== bboett@adlp.org http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett ===============================================================