Austin Godber said:
> Ted Gould wrote:
>> I think in these cases it comes down to the excellent GNOME bindings
>> that are available for Python.  I think both of these guys are using
>> those bindings.  I believe that Redhat uses them extensively also
>> (which makes people believe they'll be around and supported).  It's
>> been enough that I've downloaded "Dive into Python" and have started
>> looking at it.
>
> They are that much better than perl's gnome bindings?  I am just getting
>  into this GUI programming so if you could provide an example of what
> would constitute "excellent" vs not excellent I would be quite happy.  I
>  don't mean to put you on the spot Ted, you can get back to me on this
> if  you want :)

Unless you are a system administrator by trade, perl is far from
"intuitive" syntax wise.  Meaning it has a fairly high learning curve. 
That withstanding perl code from different programmers may look vastly
different.  Decreasing the chance for others to rapidly extend existing
works.  This is not a knock on perl.  They are in fact strengths of perl. 
The problem is for these type of applications  they are liabilities rather
than assets.

-Derek