On 07/15/2020 07:40 PM, John Dammeyer wrote:
After 3 decades of working with Turbo Pascal and then Delphi, Tcl/Python to me
is such a step backwards it's painful to use.
Yes, I'm with you. I wrote some big programs in Pascal a
LONG time ago. The biggest one was a Gerber file to raster
converter program. Recently, I took that old source and
recompiled it under FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) and got it
running in very short order.
My experience with Pascal was that once I got the program to
compile without errors (minor syntax and variable name
errors) they generally worked first time, or at least came
very close.
About 15 years ago I wrote several large GUIs to control
data acquisition systems, using Tcl/Tk for the screen
interface and C for the back end hardware control and
database of settings. The C part was very complex but
pretty straightforward. The Tcl part was close to a
nightmare, due to all the quirks in Tcl.
I have recently created a few smaller GUIs with an initial
structure set up with Glade, interfaced to a back end in C.
Once the initial xml is set up with Glade, I then go in and
hand-edit all the special interface options, as Glade
doesn't seem able to go in and modify an xml file once it is
built. But, the xml is a much saner way to just build a GUI
than with Tcl.
Jon
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