On Thu, May 1, 2008 1:44 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:

>> With the advent of tile, Tk widgets in Tcl evel look like windoze, no
>> that
>> that's necessarily an endorsement.
>
> Ooo ... ooo ... ook?
>
> Take some time, remove the typos, fix the grammar and clarify that
> statement, thanks.

s/evel/even/ s/no/not/

And I mean that looking like windoze comforts the feeble-minded, but
doesn't necessarily improve the interface.

>
>> Me, I like SW that works and scripting languages that are fast,
>> expressive, easy to write, maintain, and scale well. And did I mention
>> truely cross-platform?
>
> And Tcl/Tk was none of those in the 8.0->8.3 transition.

I didn't suffer that, but acknowledge that you may exercise a language
more than I.

> In my option,
> that's where Tcl/Tk lost the war.
>
>

OK, TIME OUT!

This American propensity of viewing everything as a conflict/football
game/war leads us down many stupid roads. The war on poverty (least
unsuccessful of the many wars I've seen). The war on drugs. "My 'battle'
with cancer."

How about the right tool for the problem?

-- 
Lan Barnes

SCM Analyst              Linux Guy
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        Biodiesel Brewer


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