Re: [Peep-develop] peep's popularity problems

[Collin S. <col...@co...>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:58, Michael Gilfix wrote:

>   I'm leaning away from C++ at the moment. Mostly because of the
> available libs n' what it means for portability. I'd like Peep
> to run on Windows with no hassle, as well as many other platforms.
> Also, the audio libraries are abstract in Java across platforms,
> which isn't really true in C++ without a serious dependency. So
> I'd rather stay away from it. Plus, ant is cool :) I'm a total
> ant convert since it is sooo easy to maintain. Collin had some
> interest in C# and mono, but I think I'm leaning towards J2EE
> myself. Must be the job influence <grin>.

I've been devoting some thought to it, and I'm strongly leaning towards
J2EE as well.  I like the scripting capabilities of Perl, though perhaps
through the Java-Python integration (with which I'm admittedly not very
familiar at the moment) we could achieve a similar result with all the
advantages of easy scripting.

-Collin

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Collin Starkweather, Ph.D.        col...@co...
University of Colorado                     Department of Economics
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