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Most UI code is intrinsically event-based. e.g., "on click, do this", "on resize, do that" Erlang comes to mind as a good event-based language. Strangely, it i
by hobbs 18y ago
Most UI code is intrinsically event-based. e.g., "on click, do this", "on resize, do that"
Erlang comes to mind as a good event-based language. Strangely, it is rarely (if ever) used for UI.
- stcredzero 18y agoI guess this is why Rob Pike can spend 6 months writing a concurrency-friendly language like Newsqueak, then use it to write a GUI windowing system in a coupe of hours. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344