From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Tue Sep 12 12:10:44 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29085 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2000 19:10:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Sep 2000 19:10:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bodhi.math.ucla.edu) (128.97.4.253) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Sep 2000 19:10:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (bodhi.math.ucla.edu [128.97.4.253]) by bodhi.math.ucla.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00721; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:10:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: jimc@xena.cft.ca.us To: Lex Spoon Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc. In-Reply-To: <200009112116.RAA20629@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jim Carter I really shouldn't be participating in an off-topic religious war (again), but... I've found that scripting languages with graphic capabilities are very powerful. My "favorite" is tcl/tk (bizarre syntax in some ways, but has a very complete widget set and a packer/placer that works), and my productivity using it is much higher than if I tried to code the same apps in "C". I've also had good results with perl/tk (a perl interface to the same widget set via the TK module). tcl/tk runs natively on Windows and Mac, although I personally haven't actually run my apps on those operating systems (they wouldn't be useful). I believe other popular scripting languages also run cross-platform. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Internet: jimc@math.ucla.edu (finger for PGP key) UUCP:...!{ucsd,ames,ncar,gatech,purdue,rutgers,decvax,uunet}!math.ucla.edu!jimc On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Lex Spoon wrote: > > pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > << Microsoft makes it hard for people to develop applications that > > run well both on Windows and non-Windows. >> > > Whereas Linux, say, makes it easy to develop something that runs on that > > system as well as Windows and Macs? Hooohah! > > > Actually, yes, with the exception that Macs (I hear) have very stringent > coding guidelines. If you just make an effort to be portable, it's not a huge > amount of extra effort. If nothing else, you can use wine to > make a windows-like program that will run on both Linux and Windows. > > > It's just that not many programmers bother. > > > -Lex > > To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com >