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Re: Acme: A User Interface for Programmers

To: rahul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Dave)
Subject: Re: Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
From: Dean Johnson <dtj@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:23:27 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: dtj@xxxxxxx, s92035@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jessie@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199909241811.OAA28389@reno.cis.upenn.edu> from Rahul Dave at "Sep 24, 99 02:11:40 pm"
Sender: owner-jessie@xxxxxxxxxxx
Rahul Dave writes:
> 
> While we are throwing around ideas, jpython could be used to extend jessie
> for  scripting  of debugging activities. Jpython allows python access to java
> classes with NO additional code. A set of classes-methods would have to be
> identified in jessie as being useful for scripting, and public methods
> from there will be accessible to python.(see www.jpython.org).
> 

As a matter of fact, Jessie's predecessor Nessie (C++ and ViewKit) used an 
embedded python for its scripting. For instance, when you hit a breakpoint, 
you have it run a python script. I saw this as a great thing because you
could put *real* analytics in your conditional breakpoints. It was our 
target to make nearly everything, including GUI setup, done in python.

        -Dean Johnson
         Tool Hooligan
         Jessie Project
         Silicon Graphics Inc.    Eagan,MN      (651) 683-5880

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