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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KScript
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1999-06-08 11:57:14
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Hi,

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Martin Konold wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Michael Koch wrote:
> 
> > Really good idea. But we should have a standardized language for
> > KDE-script-support. It's easier to learn, because you can buy books about the
> > language. It's hard enough to learn how to use the QT/KDE-classes.
> 
> Well, there is already very good documentation for both Qt and KDE
> available either as hypertext and also in books. (Just look at the two new
> excellent books from Kalle)
> 
> > Who was the original maintainer of kpython ? Why don't he port it to KDE
> > 2.0 ?
> 
> KScript is supposed to be similar to exisiting languages with build in
> support for KDE and CORBA. IMHO there is a market for such a scripting
> language even outside of KDE development. 
> 
> One of the key enterprise MS Office features is the scripting via a
> generic language (Visual Basic in this case)
> 
> People generally do appreciate such an easy to use and adapted language if
> it is derived from a generic multi purpose language. A lot of
> functionality e.g. of KSpread could be implemented in KScript rahter fast.

Correct. Especially since we own the language code, we can hack
support for KOM etc. directly in the language core. That is more
difficult with Python, especially if one doe not want to
hack python itself.

I think it is one of Mircrosofts success stories not to use stuff
that they did not invent. Dont want to say that it is a good idea,
but it works. And I really see a need for a highly customized
scripting language.

Bye
Torben

PS: When you see how easy CORBA+KOM is to use with kscript you wont
believe it if you know what "pain" it is in C++!

> Regards,
> -- martin
> 
> // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
> // Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
> KDE:  A stable GUI for a reliable OS.
> 
> 

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