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[gtk-list] Re: Gtk and the scripting languages of the world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Tai)
Thu Aug 21 21:48:36 1997
From: atai@ece.ucsd.edu (Andy Tai)
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:48:23 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <8767szf8rh.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> from "Marius Vollmer" at Aug 22, 97 00:53:22 am
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>
> While this looks quite innocent, it uses some constructs that are very
> natural (and ok) for C code but don't translate easily to more
> high-level languages like Scheme.
>
.....
>
> This is all very vague but I already have some more concrete ideas.
> They are not concrete enough to be written down and in any case, they
> will probably require a major overhaul of Gtk. So I would like to
> hear from you if there's enough support for a clean interface to high
> level languages.
>
> If you ask me, writing large, interactive programs in C sucks. There
> has to be something like Phython, or Perl, or Scheme, or maybe even
> TCL.
>
> Marius
Please whatever you do, remember that there are lots of programmers who prefer
to use C/C++ over any script languages for building GUI and large scale
projects. So your interface
should not degrade the gtk's utility for low level programming and make it
difficult for building advanced C++ toolkits on top of gtk. We do not want
gtk to become another Tk.
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