I strongly agree. Also, sockets will give us better direct access to Web technology (i.e. web services).
Thanks. Blake On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd love to add trace (step) functionality to the Emacs mode, if the > underlying functionality is available. Jürgen? > > A native library for sockets is an obvious feature to add. It should be > rather trivial to do so. > > GUI interface is, in fact, less important in my opinion. These days most > people do GUI's using web technologies anyway. > > Regards, > Elias > > > On 22 April 2014 22:12, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know the history of J, and I agree with what they did. I also fully >> agree with your observations regarding Tk. GTK+ is a far better choice >> than Tk. There is one important difference though. Integrating GTK+ is a >> huge job! Integrating Tk is much easier. Bang for the buck, Tk is a good >> first pass at enabling a GUI interface of some sort. >> >> The work done on APL's file systems and code cleanups are far more >> important to me. I just think that adding sockets and a GUI interface at >> some point would present GNU APL as a total solution. Having said all >> that, however, I certainly think the present course of tightening up the >> code, adding more standard APL facilities (trace, stop, etc.), and a file >> system are top priority. I am just bring up some of theses ideas. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Blake >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> The J community seems to be pretty excited about their QT interface. Tk >>> is easy to use, but results in horrible-looking applications that doesn't >>> integrate well with the rest of the interface. >>> >>> If I were to implement support for a GUI framework, it'd be either GTK+ >>> or Android, depending on whether I wanted to target desktops or mobile >>> devices. >>> >>> That said, I have no intention to do either so my opinions on this >>> matters approximately this much: ⍬ >>> >>> Do you have plans to implement this Tk support? If so, I will applaud >>> your efforts and my preferences for other frameworks will not stop me from >>> helping if I can. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Elias >>> >>> >>> On 22 April 2014 09:30, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Just an idea. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >