[746] in java-interest
Re: Native Tk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey P. Kesselman)
Tue Jul 18 14:34:24 1995
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:46:21 -0700
From: "Jeffrey P. Kesselman" <jeffk@mycroft.isp.net>
To: Kacper.Nowicki@fuw.edu.pl, phil@bolthole.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
"If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
Anonymous
It seems a little pointless if not out-right counter productive to try to
solve the limitations in one language by grafting a whole different language
onto it-- paricularly when the languages differ in philosophy as much as
java and Tk.
If you want to write TK, go ahead.
Now i DO think AWT has some real problems, but I disagree with this approach
as a solution. Among AWT's problems is that tehre doesnt seem to be any
easy way to just open a text window (terminal style with character
position based cursor addressing). I've been trying to write sucha beast for
a week now withotu much luck...
Anybody out there have a few pointers?
Jeff Kesselman
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