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Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:33:16 PST8
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Pushing ahead]

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Lynn, here's the lost post.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: SCOUG-Programming: Pushing ahead
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:21:29 -0800
From: Sheridan George
To: scoug-programming@scoug.com
References: <200601161507.k0GF7sn6031003@ylpvm01.prodigy.net>

Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
> Greg,
>
>

current standard of 2 hours. Thus at the moment for all the
> previous reasons I would favor VIM over jEdit and Python over
> VIM.
>
If VIM is simple enough to understand and then to modify but "stout" enough to do the job then let's
use it.

Any use of Python is good by me.

Python has an editor that comes in the Windows distribution (also, Unix/X Window Systems). It
requires Tkinter, a graphics program, that had been ported to OS/2 but but dropped (
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2001-November/006470.html ) because it doesn't work any
more. The reason why may be Tkinter also requires TCL and TK (
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b2.html ) and those ports haven't been kept up.

I still think our first task should be to develop a list, or maybe specifications if you insist, of
all the things we need (editor - other than well known editing functions and packaging our
specialized source commands and sending them to a DBMS, what else must it do?; DBMS - any special
things it must do?; compiler - I know it will probably have to be multi-pass, maybe draw source code
from the DBMS [or maybe that is the editor's function also] but what else?; glue functions, ect.) to
put this system together. I feel we are in a swamp without a map.

Sheridan

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