Re: [Visualpython-users] Philosophical question

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Dethe Elza wrote:

> > b) why it should matter "as a pedagogical tool" how Visual is implemented. 
> >If the internals were one extremely long PERL line, it shouldn't matter. 
> >The main thing is the friendly Python API. 
> 
> VPython is very nice and simple to use, but it is still easy to want to do
> things which go beyond it.  I'd like to have some good examples of OpenGL
> programming in Python, but this isn't one of them.  Not a criticism of
> VPython, just a disappointment on my part--got to keep looking or roll my
> own. 
> 

That shouldn't be hard to arrange -- looking at the all-python version of
Visual would indeed be informative. Might not be the simplest example of GL in
Python ... but it's easy to arrange.

I don't see any of the pure-python version hanging around the Attics of
sourceforge cvs. I guess it wasn't on sourceforge yet. But I'm sure Dave can
post an old version somewhere, or check it in (or just send a copy) ...




Ari