comp.lang.python

bobicanprogram

2/22/2010 8:37:00 PM

On Feb 22, 9:40 am, bobicanprogram <ican...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The SIMPL project (http://www.icanprogram...) aims to bring the
> Send/Receive/Reply messaging (first popularized by QNX) to the open
> source Linux world. Since its inception more that 10 years ago, the
> SIMPL toolkit has grown steadily in functionality. Through the use
> of surrogates, SIMPL modules can be dispersed seamlessly across
> networks including heterogeneous networks with only one Linux node.
> SIMPL modules can also be written in several programming languages
> including Python, C, C++, JAVA and Tcl/Tk. Modules written in
> different languages can be mixed in a SIMPL appliction.
>
> Python-SIMPL has been used to connect Python UIs to C data acquisition/
> computation backends. While this is an example of a common use for
> the toolkit, it is by no means the only place it could be useful.
> Python to Python, Python to JAVA as well as Python to C are all
> seamlessly possible in both local or distributed applications. Python-
> SIMPL allows a software application to be broken up into modules where
> the language choices for each module can be optimized.
>
> The Python-SIMPL interface library has undergone a fundamental
> revision with the v2.0.0 release. The underlying shared library which
> wraps the SIMPL toolkit as a Python extension was cleaned up
> considerably. In addition two new Python wrappers were created to
> expose this SIMPL toolkit in more object oriented fashion to the
> Python developer.
>
> The simplest starting point for exploring the Python-SIMPL toolkit is
> an online "hello world" level tutorial at:
>
> http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/le...
>
> The Python-SIMPL toolkit can be downloaded in source form at:
>
> http://www.icanprogram.../python.self.htm
>
> or in precompiled binary (i386) form at:
>
> http://www.icanprogram.../pythonbin.self.html
>
> We at the SIMPL project welcome participants at all levels of
> expertise. If you are interested do not hesitate to contact us.
>
> bob


There is a typo in the source link. It should read

http://www.icanprogram.../python.self.html

Sorry about that.

bob