I love Shoes.  Very cool.  Having fun learning Ruby and Shoes.  _why is a hoot. 
 He makes it less intimidating/serious.  (Sorry, can't go as far as to say 
fun.) 

But I'm an older dude.  15 years ago I taught myself some Turbo Pascal 5.5.  
There was also a shareware objects library that helped you do windows and menus 
and colors and...sound familiar?

Fez

--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Kyle King <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Kyle King <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Introducing Socks, a shoes-like JS toolkit
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 3:45 AM
> Shoes has always, to me anyway,
> pioneered the idea that anyone should be able to write a
> simple gui. That programming little apps should be fun and
> easy. But Shoes isn't just a toy to teach children. Although
> it is best suited for teaching, it also has the very real
> potential to be a practical, everyday utility in a ruby
> programmer's toolbox. I can honestly say that I've used
> Shoes at work to write little one-time guis for people that
> aren't comfortable with the command line.
> 
> I think that the idea behind Shoes is more important than
> any implementation. Thank you for bringing it to another
> corner of the computing world. I'll do my best to contribute
> to the Shoes philosophy in any incarnation I may find it.
> 
> Kyle
> 
> On May 18, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Peter Jihoon Kim wrote:
> 
> > Over the last semester, I have been working on an easy
> to use javascript UI toolkit with Shoes (http://shoooes.net) like syntax 
> called Socks. It is not
> a port of Shoes, so there are some differences in the API,
> but they are still very similar nonetheless.
> > 
> > Check it out:
> > 
> > http://wiki.github.com/petejkim/socks
> 
> 


      

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