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 > >
