Ed Leafe, eminent VFP guru, does some wicked Python stuff and is working on his derivitive, Dabo, which I saw a sample of and was mighty impressed.


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>Since the good old when Rick Strahl so actively supported VFP as a platform for speedy and effective web dev., we have not seen a rally for http development using generic interpreters "à la fox".
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>Compilers are supposed to be the way. Current conventional wisdom is this that such "general purposes interpreter tools" are not effective for massive applications, performance-, quality- and performance-wise.
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>The recent news: YouTube is a python thing (no java or MS equiv.). Googling on Youtube, python and Guido will get you to the information. Guido (the python guru - now at google - was not even aware of it until a couple of days ago).
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>Yes you can build decent web apps with interpreters. UT is a sample. YouTube is another one:)
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>For information using python as servlet and page-based environment is quite like using vfp for the same matter. A simple interpreter to build, tune up your prg files with a dot prompt (for the learning side), high-end productivity and comfortable batteries included (not the same ones as VFP but effective as well).
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>Am I the only one here to have switch skillset from VFP to python? Specifically for Web dev.
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>Frank