> The maintenance thing may be true but for me that doesn't outweigh the > clear benefits I get from using Python i.s.o. e.g. C++: the fact that > I have much less code that is more compact and for me more directly > readable is a clear advantage when doing maintance on code I didnt > touch for a while. Documenting the essential parameters used with some > examples and some logging helps (for me at least...).
Python is very easy to write. But with code grow and time passes, things get worse. Currently I tries to reanimate one of my old freeware project and faced it again. > The type of IDE you are looking for is more something like Rational > Rose (e.g. RRT?) type of tooling perhaps? There you "CAD" components > and their statebehavior and the system generates C or C++ code. Perhaps. I newer use Rational Rose but hear about it. But I use some other Rational* products and they scare me a lot. So maybe Rose can be used for "inspiration" but not much more. Actually I don't want to put programmer in GUI-fashioned env. with a lot of buttons and switches. I think about "classic" text-like view but that actually "understands" that are you doing (typing) on. So your types goes in "datastore" first and then renders back as a text representation. Something like this. Vladimir Ignatov -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
