Why poo-poo a good suggestion like this?

I'm poo-pooing the reasoning, not the suggestion.

Note the 'when learning', once GUIs are understood in general, then one can apply the knowledge to others to try them out.

Well, yes, but how many Tk users really understand GUIs? I usually find Tk/Gtk programs hard to use. The funny thing is that that has nothing at all to do with the toolkits themselves. It has to do with the coders, and the newbie level they start in and unfortunately often forever stay in. First learn about designing (ne coding) GUIs, then assess several toolkits and choose the one that meets what you need. Do not without thinking for yourself decide to use what everyone else uses, because the majority generally tends to choose the inferior technique, but more importantly: you are not everyone else.

There are numerous good reasons for (not) using this thing. But "because you can get a lot of help" isn't one of them. (And, ehm, the help you can get is mostly (note: not entirely!) from other beginners...)

There's nothing quite as frustrating as sitting in front of the computer, with inadequate documentation, and no other help in reach, when one is learning something new.

This is true. But would you say the documentation of said toolkit is adequate, for a *Perl* coder, let alone a *beginning* Perl coder?

Peopleo may boo me, but its the reason I would reccommend Windows to anyone completely new to computers who wants to get started

Boo! (Hey, you asked for it :))

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