[Python-Dev] Global name lookup schemes (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:30:30 -0800

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Way cool, Ping ! Does AI provide tools for simplifying these > kind of diagrams or did you do it all by hand ? I spent all day on it. Illustrator was not much help, sadly. It's so lame that it can't even keep arrowheads stuck to arrows, and its grid-snapping behaviour is mysterious and unpredictable.

FYI, a language that I really enjoyed working with for illustrations is MetaPost:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html http://www.tug.org/metapost.html

It's a really cool language, and like a lot of drawing languages, debugging is pretty. =)

I've wanted to bridge Python and MetaPost, but never found the time (or frankly, a good excuse).

--da