RE: [Pythoncard-users] Dan Shafer's ScriptExpert

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Dan Shafer
>
> >Hopefully we can produce a development environment that allows
> >non-programmers to build simple apps without seeing actual code.  This
> >is a big task but would go a long way to getting PythonCard accepted by
> >a larger audience.
>
> I don't know if anyone ever saw my crowning software achievment, "Dan
> Shafer's ScriptExpert," but it was a (largely successful, I think)
> attempt to create a tool in which people could write scripts by
> clicking on buttons and having the program build the script. Highly
> interactive. Sold well for a HC thingie, got a number of good reviews.
>
> Doing something like that for a better-structured language like
> Python might be feasible, but I'm not sure fruitful. That is, I think
> most Python coders would think it silly and useless.

A lot of Python coders, especially the *nix crowd, find IDEs silly and
useless. "I don't need no stinkin' IDE, I have vim or emacs." That doesn't
mean it wouldn't appeal to a particular subset of "inventive users."

> However, creating a squished-down version of that kind of scripting
> tool for a subset of Python that is represented by the PythonCard
> events and handlers, e.g., would be an intriguing notion. Or would it?

A squished down version would certainly make an interesting app.

ka