application to show to potential users?

When trying to convince some folks to start using Perl I can show them quick and dirty examples but that might just enforce their view of perl as a "scripting language". I would like to show them a nice application written in GTK2 Perl not the source code, just the application. As in most cases t

Re: application to show to potential users?

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:34:37 +0300 "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When trying to convince some folks to start using Perl >I can show them quick and dirty examples but that might just >enforce their view of perl as a "scripting language". > >I would like to show them a nice application w

Re: application to show to potential users?

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:34 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > When trying to convince some folks to start using Perl > I can show them quick and dirty examples but that might just > enforce their view of perl as a "scripting language". > > I would like to show them a nice application written in GTK2 Pe

Re: application to show to potential users?

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:34:37 +0300 "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Which applications would you recommend? > I use this all the times on linux, to grep thru a directory. Its called vgrep (visual grep) http://perlmonks.org?node_id=524324 screenshot there zentara P.S. Totally untested

Re: application to show to potential users?

Hello, > I would like to show them a nice application written in GTK2 Perl > not the source code, just the application. > > As in most cases these people are using Windows I would like to show > them an application there. > > Which applications would you recommend? You may find some application

Re: application to show to potential users?

Thanks for all the suggestions. BTW based on vgrep idea of zentara I created wack - a GUI for ack which is a grep-like tool written in Perl. http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Wack/ It is a very preliminary version, I'd be glad if people here tried it and gave me the

Re: application to show to potential users?

* Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-19 08:00]: > wack - a GUI for ack Awww, that just *begged* for the name “gack”. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // ___ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://ma

Re: application to show to potential users?

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:54:11 +0300 "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for all the suggestions. > >BTW based on vgrep idea of zentara I created wack - a GUI for ack >which is a grep-like tool written in Perl. >http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/ >http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Wack/ > >

Re: application to show to potential users?

* zentara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-20 14:55]: > if you want to impress people, Wack is a very lousy name. > > I assume you are from a non-US location, but here in the US, > "wack" , in common slang, means fubar. (amoung other things > :-) ) Errm, it’s a GUI for `ack`, a tool which has a swit