----- Original Message -----
From: "Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Philippine Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] X programming in linux
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> ..
> > however, to add spice to students lives, we would like to include a GUI
> > programming part. this is also make students "see" their applications.
> > i have narrowed down some possible toolkits to use for this:
> >
> > X/Motif
> > X/gtk
> > tcl/tk
>
> Motif is crappy and ancient. See how buggy Netscape 4 is? a lot of that
> has to do with Motif. Avoid like the plague.
>
> Tcl/Tk is fine because it's interpreted. But Tcl is an ugly language
That's coming from someone who likes Perl? ;-)
Anyway, if you or your students don't like Tcl there are Tk for many other
scripting languages, Perl included. Python has Tkinter and a couple other
GUI libraries.
Brian
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