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Re^4: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.

by tomazos (Deacon)
on Jul 21, 2005 at 21:32 UTC ( [id://477023]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.
in thread "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.

I'm asking for information, and offering a theory up. Not advocating anything yet.

The GUI programming I've personally done has been in platform specific libraries to Mac OS, Mac OS X and Windows XP. I don't know much about cross-platform GUI development. It is my impression it isn't really there yet. Having said that I have tinkered with Perl/Tk and AWT/Swing.

So is that a consensus among the Perl community? That Perl/Tk as a GUI programming language and is fragile? I thought Tcl/Tk has been around and under constant development for many years. I didn't know we lost that much by swapping out Tcl for Perl?

-Andrew.


Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

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Re^5: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2005 at 22:48 UTC

    You say:

    I'm asking for information, and offering a theory up. Not advocating anything yet.
    Well you said at the start of this:
    I'm considering doing something monumentally stupid and writing a "Why Perl is better and more popular than Java & .NET" article
    I think the point is that people are encouraging you to think about why you might not want to do this.

    /J\

Re^5: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2005 at 05:29 UTC
    So is that a consensus among the Perl community?

    No. It's my opinion. I think it's an informed opinion, but I don't want to put it forward as anything other than my informed opinion.

    That Perl/Tk as a GUI programming language and is fragile?

    I mean that I consider it fragile to install. It's a big, complicated project that has to do many complex things. I've seen some of how it does what it does. I don't know if I'd like the internals of SWT, Swing, or the .Net replacement for MFC any more either -- but being installed as part of the base package (or at least being installed as binaries) is a huge advantage.

Re^5: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2005 at 23:28 UTC
    I'm asking for information, and offering a theory up. Not advocating anything yet.
    You're not informed enough concot a theory.

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