From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt H Message-ID: <199231957657.20010525102613@proweb.co.uk> To: Lucio De Re <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] Limbo Tk FAQ? In-Reply-To: <20010525104510.N21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20010524185028.F1E14199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu> <20010525065834.K21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za> <44225839029.20010525084415@proweb.co.uk> <20010525104510.N21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:26:13 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a7fce47c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hello Lucio, >The question is: "Is this the answer to Geoff's prayers?" It depends if Geoff's prayer is "please can I have a simple application framework please" It's the IDE that makes the difference. VB writes all the form layout files for you. You can write them by hand which is probably what tk feels like (which is a guess on my part as I've never programmed in it just read various papers) I found VB's main weaknesses (aside from it's platform dependence) to be it's lack of in-built support for things like TCP connections and regular expressions and that's what lead to my rediscovery of unix like systems. that paper is at http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html -- Matt mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk I'm floating on a lilo in the Sea of Alright