Hi Brendon, for GUIs have a look at LTk:
http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/ Peter On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Brendon Schumacker <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a resend... I guess I was supposed to hit "Replay to All" the > first time. > > Hi, > > Thanks for your response Pascal, I'm actually glad that I was wrong > about some of these things. > > Python has more than 1 GUI package, and I believe the same is true for > Java. Both of which are very popular languages, especially Java, so > I'd assume that they have developed much more. For example a friend > of mine who does a lot of Java for business was telling me that he was > once worried about a project where he had to program one of those > scanner guns they use at shopping check-outs... oddly enough, Java > already had a package to detect the bar codes and somehow process > them. > > I'd assume that LISP lacks a lot of such packages as it doesn't seem > as popular, but again I'd be happy to find out that I'm wrong if > that's the case. > > Brendon > > On 22 May 2010 22:45, Pascal J. Bourguignon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2010/05/21, at 02:31 , Brendon Schumacker wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> As I was saying before, I'm actually very new (or at least less >>> experienced) with LISP but I want to know more about it. I guess I >>> should fist tell you why I have this interest. If you go to my site >>> and look at the current article you'll see I know my fair share of >>> languages and have studied a lot (www.brendon-art.com). I think LISP >>> has a very interesting syntax, and I've heard that it's one of the >>> oldest language that supported important concepts such as recursion, >>> and basically speaking, you probably never needed to replace LISP with >>> any other language as much as you could just improve or grow upon it, >>> however C/C++ seemed to have taken over at some point in history. >>> Would you say that my interpretation of this history here is correct? >> >> Coarsely, yes. >> >> >>> I'm a fan of the Python language as well. I like the fact that it has >>> an interpreter, it can run and be changed on the fly, and the syntax >>> is quite easy to understand and straight forward. LISP also has these >>> same qualities. >> >> No, that's the other way. You could say: "Lisp has these qualities. Python >> also has these same qualities." (We could disagree about what quality >> Python has or has not, but that's something else). >> >> >>> One worry I have with LISP is that it isn't being kept up with and so >>> there might not be as many interesting things you can do with it these >>> days. >> >> Again, that's the other way. The other programming language still aren't up >> to Lisp, and there are a lot of interesting things you can do easily in Lisp >> that you still cannot do, or cannot do easily (which is an euphemism), in >> the other programming languages. >> >> >>> Can you create a windowed desktop app (or any GUI) with LISP? >>> Can I connect to a network with it? What are some ways that LISP is >>> still being used today? >> >> Try to answer to these questions for C or Python. Remember that the ANSI C >> standard doesn't specify anything about MS-Windows, or bit mapped graphic >> user interfaces such as MS-Windows, or network communications. And AFAIK, >> there's not even a standard for the Python programming language! >> >> >> The short answer is yes, and google it. >> >> -- >> __Pascal Bourguignon__ >> http://www.informatimago.com >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
