[Coco] "Who came up with pyDriveWire ?"

[didier at aida.org]

the result is great

I've not been able to use the java version without downgrading java on 
my machine and breaking other applications
I tried the python version, it never even started...

if running an application means spending 3 days trying to modify the 
system to get something working
there is a serious problem

btw I also tried to install on linux and got the same result:  java 
errors and python sending error messages...

I run C programs since 1984 and never had any problems...

I installed that for liber809 and discovered that it was as unfinished 
product totally unsuable...


On 09/08/2020 07:41, RETRO Innovations wrote:
> On 8/9/2020 12:29 AM, didier at aida.org wrote:
>> but why not in C or C++ ?, it could run as a windows service or a 
>> unix daemon
>
> You can run Python as a windows service or unix daemon.
>
> And the easy answer is, because the author does this as a fun 
> activity, and so chooses to write in a language they find the most 
> valuable to them.
>
> My apologies, but I think it's a bit rude to insinuate that a program 
> developer should have picked a different language to create their 
> application. They did the work, they get to pick the language.  You 
> want it in C, write one in C.
>
> And, for the record, I also find Python confusing as I'll get out and 
> would never write an app in it, so it's not like I'm defending the 
> language itself.
>
> Jim
>
>