My french is attrocious so I got Michels original post machine transated. I liked what Michel was saying, maybe others would like to share:
Hello! As you are French, you will coprendras me. Then: - windev is closed, and protected by dongles. Result: dongle lost, broken down, or flown, a licence should be repurchased (it arrived to a friend) - the language of windev is much less advanced than Python. And, when I say much, it is weak... Python has enormous possibilities in procedural programming, in Directed Object, and, even, in functional programming. - the internal structure of Python is extraordinary. Really. - Python is very easy to learn. There exists much of resources, even in French, on Internet, in books, etc. - Python is a stable language, with very very few bugs/problèmes. On this point, windev mark seriously the step. On certain forums devoted to windev, the number of bugs announced was frightening. - the bookshops available for Python cover a spectrum much broader than those available for windev - the data bases integrated into windev are from the old engine "hyperfile", too much limited. With Python, one can choose the DBMS which one wants, without too concern. Since SQL-lite, until Oracle (XE or other), one can assume all the levels of power necessary. - with Python, one can make multi-threading, distributed, Web applications, consoles, invisible (services), waiters COM, develop interfaces, or of use of all ready, work on network, control industrial plants, etc etc. - I do not use the "free one" as argument, except for a point: if PC-SOFTWARE (editor of windev) has, one day of large difficulties, the product could disparaitre well suddenly, which is not the case of Python, maintained by a community. However, few years ago, this box had, precisely, of financial important problems. The large strong point of windev, it is a very aggressive marketing. Moreover, if you want to eat and drink with the eye, will follow the presentations. Before last point: you could have put your message in the French newsgroup on Python. Last point: if somebody wants to translate this message, it has my entire agreement. -- @-greetings Michel Archstone -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
