"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw_at_anthem.cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
>
>
> >>>>> "MM" == Marco Mariani <m.mariani_at_imola.nettuno.it> writes:
>
> MM> I don't know Python, but would like to do some nice function.
>
> Python is a free, object-oriented scripting language. Personally, I
> prefer it to Tcl or Perl since it scales up much better as projects
> grow. Because of it's huge library, it's also perfect for small
> scripts. Anyway, to find out more about Python, including grabbing
> everything you need to play with it and learn more, check out
> <http://www.python.org/>.
>
> -Barry
Python is the much more natural choice in my opinion for this sort of thing.
I was so happy when I discovered python after struggling with perl for two
years.
I've been reading though the FvwmPython stuff, and it seems like a good place
to start. I was thinking though that given python's capabilities, it might be
logical to turn the FvwmPython code (can't really call it a module I guess),
into a sort of Python module server, so you could have multiple python modules
runnning, with FvwmPython controlling all of them.
Also (this might not go over too well I imagine), python's ability to be
embedded into a C program offers interesting possibilities. Last year there
was some discussion on this list about whether it would be beneficial to
replace the current message passing implementation of modules with dynamic
loading of module code into the running fvwm process. I think it's still on
the todo list as well. This might be a clean way to do that.
--
Brady Montz
bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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Received on Mon Aug 19 1996 - 14:20:54 BST