Re: Meta-level questions

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 18:27:13 -0700, Roger Binns wrote:

> Mark Hahn wrote:
>> The only issue is whether there is any other option for obtaining a
>> decent library for Prothon.  I spent a lot of time earlier this year
>> trying to figure out how to get access to the CPython library with no
>> success.  The Parrot library doesn't exist.  I was pursuing the 1.0
>> release with no library only because there was no library option to
>> choose from.
> 
> I am curious what you think will be the "sweet spot" for Prothon
> applications.  For example it is sys admin for Perl, web stuff
> and databases for PHP, easy embedding into C programs such as
> games for Lua, custom "enterprise" software for Java etc
> 
> In a shorter question, what do you hope/expect the first killer
> application written in Prothon to do?
> 
> IMHO current languages are very weak on GUIs and dealing with
> HTML/XML.  They feel a lot like tedious assembly style programming
> where you had to tell the machine what to do in minute detail.

Great.  You can help me do a wrapper for wxNet/html that is so awesome it
makes Prothon the standard for cross GUI/web programming.  We'll come up
with a whole new object paradigm that makes it trivial to program and we'll
implement this new paradigm with prototypes.