Will Python Be Good For This Type Of Project?  Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com Thu Sep 29 14:51:40 CEST 2005  Hal
Vaughan wrote: > I'm self taught and most of what I've been
working on for the past several > years has been entirely in
Perl and Java.  I've noticed that I can code > about 5 times
faster in Perl than Java, in part because I feel like > whenever
I want to do something in Java, I have to create an object, do a
> few preperatory things, then do what I need, but in Perl, I
just call the > routine. > Java, however, does much better at
cross platform apps, especially if I need > a GUI (I find Swing
easy to use).   I need to write a setting editor which >
basically consists of a GUI with a lot of checkboxes, radio
buttons, and > option select lists.  I originally had something
to do this in Javascript, > but Javascript was not strong enough
to let me create data structures to > keep track of the data.  I
had to store it in 3d arrays, which was hard to > keep up with.
If you find Swing interfaces ea