----- Original Message ----- From: Raul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Delphi, was Learning to program > But there are no real alternatives in the wings. For some reason the Linux > crowd has problems adopting Java and cling to archaic languages like C++ and C > for application development. These languages have their merrits as the OS > level, but as soon as you actually want to do something big (Java) or fast > (Delphi), then there is little alternative. I fail to see how Delphi is a real-work environment, rather than a GUI building environment. C is fine. C will do everything. Similarly, C++ and ObjC can also do pretty much everything. Glade provides a GUI editor for C & GTK, and C++ & GTK. Java works if you want to write your code and just carry it onto over Sun JVMs. Thre is a `Free' IDE with a GUI Editor out there too [Sun Forte Community Edition]. Perl is your instant glue. If you're telepathic, you can use the Perl/GTK bindings for GUI work, otherwise you can use Perl/Tk. Tcl is your instant embeddable glue. Tk provides the GUI. Why do you need more? > The best tools available on this front seem to be Python and Perl but there > are limits to how far you should be really taking them. > > > There are many proprietary languages that have bitten the dust. > > Well noted. Kylix is a major risk because it is a proprietary implementation, > but without it Linux will always be a real bitch to code for. *SHEESH*. What drugs are you on? XF -- +-================================================-+ | Crossfire | This message was brought to you | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% recycled electrons | +-================================================-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
