[756] in java-interest
Re: Native Tk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jayson Raymond)
Tue Jul 18 21:04:02 1995
To: Kacper Nowicki <Kacper.Nowicki@fuw.edu.pl>,
"Jeffrey P. Kesselman" <jeffk@mycroft.isp.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:24:34 -0500
From: Jayson Raymond <jraymond@connectsoft.com>
Cc: Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com>,
"java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM" <java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM>
-- [ From: Jayson Raymond * EMC.Ver #b.2.5.06 ] --
On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Jeffrey P. Kesselman wrote:
> "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.
The point is to provide more than just a hammer (Java) as a tool, but also a
saw (TCL).
The concept of extending your program/applet by grafting on an interpreter
is extremely
powerful, and with TCLs large number of existing tools behind it and it's
non-Unix
proliferation, it becomes a natural for the job.
Now, I won't argue the merits of it's syntax, and I'm certainly not
advocating the Java
team take time out from their schedule to port it. (In fact, if my plate
weren't so full I'd
just shut up and do it, and may any way.) But it's availability under Java
would be very useful.
--Jayson
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