Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!geac!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: WinTERP with other windowing systems? Message-ID: <12913@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 20 Jul 90 05:11:17 GMT References: <7557@gollum.twg.com> <5626@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 43 In article <5626@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes: > Why not use a language with proven >clean semantics, a proven track record as a powerful customization and >programming language. I don't know about "proven track record", but if you want power and clean semantics, try Scheme. There are implementations smaller than xlisp. >Scheme is more of a >minimal system -- too minimal for my tastes. I am not sure what you mean by "too minimal": It can have as much baggage as you like to add :-). Kitchen-sinks are nothing new. There are implementations of the language ranging from 30K to 10megs. Take your pick. >But I'd better stop before this turns into a language war... Too late :-) :-) >TCL's one big advantage is political -- everybody "out there" is a C >programmer, so at least people will be working with a familiar syntax... TCL has no more "advantage" than anything else. People are quite ready to abandon whatever gadget they like today as soon as they find something they like better. The trick is to give them something they really like. [A converter would help too :-)] >... jump through arbitrarily hairy hoops by introducing >brand new "languages" with familiar syntax but convoluted semantics -- just >use those curly brackets, use semicolons as separators, ... >... at least >TCL is a real language, unlike , which is the "language" i'm >thinking about.) Oh uh... dive for cover, don your asbestos suit :-) :-) oz --- First learn your horn and all the theory. Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca Next develop a style. Then forget all that uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz and just play. Charlie Parker [?] York U. CCS: (416) 736 5257