Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Paul Rubin schrieb: > >>"Nick Vatamaniuc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Python does not _need_ a component model just as you don't _need_ a RAD >>>IDE tool to write Python code. The reason for having a component model >>>or a RAD IDE tool is to avoid writing a lot of boiler plate code. >> >>It's also so that applications written in differing languages can call >>each other. > > > Nope. Things like CORBA and COM do have that property, but e.g. the Java > beans spec has only a meaning inside the VM. Not sure about .NET, but I > can imagine there it's the same thing. > Well the .NET component model is specifically designed to be cross-language, but that's a feature of .NET/mono rather than of the componenet framework. You are correct about Beans, though.
> All the languages he mentioned are statically typed, or the component > models themselves are. So the component model is basically needed (as > others also mentioned) to glue things together, to dynamize that - > whereas python is dynamic on the first hand, and actually lacks static > typing to infer component properties... > Just the same, one can use IronPython to call components written in other languages. And, I believe, vice versa. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
