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diff --git a/Misc/BLURB.WINDOWS b/Misc/BLURB.WINDOWS deleted file mode 100644 index 097db4d..0000000 --- a/Misc/BLURB.WINDOWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0 @@ -Announcing Python - -Python, a mature, powerful and stable programming language used by -tens of thousands of programmers worldwide, has arrived in full force -at the heart of Windows 95 and Windows NT. Toting the powerful -toolbox which has made it such a sucess on almost every modern -operating system, Python for Windows has embraced the metaphors and -resources of its new home and turned them into powerful tools within -the Python language. - -Python's wrapper-around-a-tool metaphor allows it to provide a -well-formed handle for manipulating the technologies which MicroSoft -provides to the programmer. These tools include: - -- Office automation and customisation through ActiveX and COM Scripting -- Networking services -- Remote access services -- Performance monitoring -- Registry maintenance -- Database interaction through both ODBC and native database drivers - -In addition, Python provides access to the standard -application-building libraries, the MicroSoft Foundation Classes. - -Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented -programming language. It provides the modern features programmer's -expect or desire, modules, exceptions, dynamic typing, high-level -dynamic data types, and classes. It combines remarkable power with -clear syntax, and easy extension. - -It is easy to extend Python by adding new, compiled tools to the -language. The compiling of extensions into the language toolbox -mitigates the overhead of interpretation, while the ability to mix -compiled and interpretted code promotes rapid application -development. In addition, it is possible to embed Python itself as a -tool in your applications, an easily understood and readily learned -extension language. - -(Should be some sort of bridge between the ideas of extending and the -ideas of already-available tools, but I have to start work soon...) - -Python's extensive, portable toolbox, available on Windows, most -Unixes, MacOS, DOS, and OS/2 includes a host of powerful tools which -are now easily available to Windows programmers. These include: - -- TCP/IP socket support -- CGI Forms Processing for the World-wide web -- Clients and servers for (among others) the HTTP and FTP protocols -- Powerful text manipulation facilities -- Powerful (optional) numeric and image manipulation facilities - -One of the most exciting of Python for Windows' new tools is -COM/ActiveX support. This tool allows Python to act as both server -and client to any COM-capable application or language, a group that -includes MSOffice, CorelDraw, MS Active Server Pages, Netscape -Communicator, MS Internet Explorer, Delphi, Visual Basic and Visual -C++. - -Client support allows Python to drive these applications (or -applications written in these languages), automating tasks, importing -or exporting data, customising environments and processing -information. Server support allows Python to be driven in a similar -manner, to provide access to its tools to any application capable of -calling a COM object. - -> Python's dynamism, flexibility, object oriented features, and -> ease of use make it a powerful and useful alternative to Java, -> Visual Basic, and compiled languages such as Delphi or C++. -> Simply put Python offers the simplest and most powerful way -> to solve many important programming and system administration -> tasks in the ActiveX/COM environment." - -It is, however, Python which is the star of Python for Windows. -Over seven years old, Python has long been a favourite of Web -Masters, Python is a clear, easily learned and understood language -with features that lend themselves to developing rapid, robust, -dynamic solutions. It is being used to solve problems in many large -organisations, notably including ... (insert notes here). It is -enthusiastically supported through public newsgroups and mailing -lists frequented by a large number of Python enthusiasts. Python -arguably provides the best support of any free language available. |