Austin Godber said: > Ted Gould wrote:
>> I think in these cases it comes down to the excellent GNOME bindings
>> that are available for Python. I think both of these guys are using
>> those bindings. I believe that Redhat uses them extensively also
>> (which makes people believe they'll be around and supported). It's
>> been enough that I've downloaded "Dive into Python" and have started
>> looking at it.
>
> They are that much better than perl's gnome bindings? I am just getting
> into this GUI programming so if you could provide an example of what
> would constitute "excellent" vs not excellent I would be quite happy. I
> don't mean to put you on the spot Ted, you can get back to me on this
> if you want :)
Unless you are a system administrator by trade, perl is far from
"intuitive" syntax wise. Meaning it has a fairly high learning curve.
That withstanding perl code from different programmers may look vastly
different. Decreasing the chance for others to rapidly extend existing
works. This is not a knock on perl. They are in fact strengths of perl.
The problem is for these type of applications they are liabilities rather
than assets.
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