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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: geoff@collyer.net
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Limbo Tk FAQ?
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:58:34 +0200
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:50:27PM -0400, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> 
> The philw put tk into Inferno.  He botched it (of course).
> I still haven't seen any reasonably pleasant way to
> write GUIs and am becoming convinced that it's just
> inherently painful.  limbo/tk is probably less painful
> than some other ways, but graphics programming still
> reminds me of assembler programming: way too much attention
> to way too much irrelevant detail.

I'm pleased to discover I am not alone in this, although I couldn't
have phrased it as succintly or as accurately as you did.  And I
enjoy assembly programming, but I find graphics programming far
too tedious.

I haven't tried VB or VC++, I must confess, perhaps I fear to
discover that there are shortcuts out there, as long as you kneel
to the right religion.  Oh, yes, there's vtcl out there too, but
my prejudice against generated high level code gets in the way of
me using it :-(

Is it all a matter of language idioms, then?

++L - a C News fan :-)