in reply to GUI

I think Perl philosphy has two main problems with this idea:
  1. TIMTOWTDI (though you leave options open, the basic philosophy still has problems. And a standard API would have problems with plug-in GUIS, because the way X-forms looks at windows (for example), and the way GTK does, are quite different)
  2. Cross platform? Java's not half as cross platform as the hype, and Perl has wider boundries yet. Tk and GTK are both striving for cross platform, and I think they both beat out Java, but they can't come close to everywhere Perl runs.

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Re: Re: GUI
by Petras (Friar) on Apr 21, 2003 at 05:26 UTC
    I recently tried to write a simple Java counter just for kicks. I would have had to download a bit of stuff just to make the same code work in Navigator and IE. Geesh.

    I'd like a simple, easy to use GUI module, too. Something as universal as the CGI module, perhaps. But as a completely unversed newbie, I'd have to leave it up to high powers than I.
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