http://bofh.org.uk/articles/tag/unfairlaughter.rss en-us 40 Piers Cawley Practices Punditry <p>Okay, so I know <span class="caps">GUI</span> coding&#8217;s a pain in the bum. I know that the windows libraries aren&#8217;t the most friendly. I know it&#8217;s not fair to point and laugh.</p> <p>But&#8230; -&gt; <a href="http://www.learningpython.com/2006/10/02/ironpython-hello-world-tutorial/">IronPython Hello World Tutorial</a></p> <p>Bwah hah ha ha.</p> <p>Of course, I don&#8217;t doubt that huge amounts of the boilerplate hoopage in the code shown can, and will, be abstracted away. But right now it&#8217;s just painful.</p> <p>IronPython&#8217;s one hell of an achievement though. If there&#8217;s any justice in the world, it deserves to get out there and kick C#&#8217;s arse good and proper, at least in the .NET context. But still.</p> Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:20:00 -0500 urn:uuid:1e7c726b-ca8e-45f5-9db1-79cad715e63d pdcawley@bofh.org.uk (Piers Cawley) http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2006/10/04/holy-wha#comments The Practice of Programming unfairlaughter http://www.bofh.org.uk/trackbacks?article_id=holy-wha&day=04&month=10&year=2006 http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2006/10/04/holy-wha