On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:52:58 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hallöchen! >> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> The choice is GUI toolkits is largely seperate from >>>>> Python. Consider that they are just bindings to libraries that >>>>> are developed completely seperate of the language. GUI is should >>>>> be seperate from the language, and thus not bound to same >>>>> expectations and desires as elements of the language itself. >>>> I disagree. A modern language must provide a convenient and >>>> well-embedded way to write GUI applications. >>> The tools for writing GUI applications belong in a library, not >>> the langauge. >> None of us has talked about changing syntax. However, the standard >> library is part of the language unless you're really very petty. > >Or you use different Python implementations. There are four different >Python implementations in the world. Not everything in the CPYthon >standard library runs in all of them.
I would guess that 90%+ of Python developers develop to CPython. >To put this differently, it's required if you want to succeed as a >language for the specific purpose of creating GUI applications. I'd >agree to that. But there are *lots* of other application areas around, >so limiting your definition of "success" to that one field is very >short-sighted. GUI applications are a large area; and langauge that doesn't do them tolerably well is limiting its success. -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
