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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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