From: "David Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(beautiful and lyric rant Snipped)
> The complexity or simplicity of Perl is in the artist,
> not the pen, or the written word.
I'm a lousy programmer, have been for 20 years. It took working with
Perl to show me that I'm barely literate. Improving now, finally, and part
of the reason is this:
> doesn't require you to spell your words in such extensive
> longhand that it takes three whole pages to comprehend
> a single thought.
Learning C++ by reading code was pure endurance contest. Sometimes I
couldn't even find the .h file where something was defined! That was much
too crazy for me, so forget about learning something new. Perl is a lot
more accessible. I can actually *read* it.
About Advocacy.....
use Win32::GUI;
Aldo's gem is what we may be missing. Take a look at
http://bangkokwizard.com/treeview.zip
Lousy code (full of experiments on how to fill a treeview) but has a neat
implimentation of Tom C.'s Flintstone hashes. Windows specific, of course,
(be nice David :-) but it actually makes it *easy* to do a GUI with code
that is very very lightweight cause all you got there is a bunch of
operating system calls! Tk is a bloated monster in comparison. (yes it does
more stuff)
For any pioneers out there, here ya go. Not much has been written for
it and a growing stream of newless cluebies coming in the door with only GUI
experience.
Rob
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not
the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman
