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It's in Python. It just _works_!

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Fri Sep 3 09:33:55 EDT 2004 
In article <4137B706.B666E733 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Today, just for fun, I decide to try to run it under Win32.
>> After installing the Numeric and Gnuplot modules, I only had to
>> make 1-line changes to two places in the code, and it started
>> working.
>
>I was similarly surprised when, after writing ZOE (a simple 3D rendering
>engine using OpenGL) for Linux, I decided on a whim to try it on Windows
>(since I don't use Windows for anything other than playing games).
>After installing PyOpenGL, a fairly involved simulation worked with
>absolutely no hitches.  In my case, I didn't even have to change one
>line of code!

   Ditto for a couple of wxPython-based programs that I
wrote on Win32 (I haven't gotten around to installing OpenGL
on my Linux machines.)  Handed to the users, who use mostly
OS-X and Linux, the programs did just work.

        Regards.        Mel.
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