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by moder 18y ago
So, you're chugging along but don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Are you supposed to keep chugging (don't quit!) or "be very quick to change"? Hm.
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by moder 18y ago
Is webpy the Python equivalent of Perl's CGI::Application? Because I've used C::A in the past and liked its simplicity.
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by moder 18y ago
Where are all these Java libraries? Do you mean Java's standard library? I ask because, Perl has the CPAN, Python has PyPI, Ruby has RubyGems, etc., but what does Java have?
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by moder 18y ago
I think the one I've heard goes, the artist is imagining the sculpture beneath that lump of marble, and they explain the actual creation of it as just removing everything else that's not the sculpture.
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by moder 18y ago
Interesting. http://www.modperlite.org/ The interview by chromatic was quite informative. Unfortunately, they say that they're forced to repeatedly reinitialize the perl interpreter with every request. This would seem to defeat the purpos
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by moder 18y ago
It was the safe and easy install for shared hosting providers plus the easy deployment for web devs. Really, it's a simple recipe. I'm still wondering why Perl/Python/Ruby/$fave_lang doesn't just mix together the same ingredients and do the
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by moder 18y ago
The rule I try to follow is to keep things as simple as you can. So, the levels of complexity for writing an app might look like this: Level 1: command line program. Usable for yourself and others who know their way around the shell. Great
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by moder 18y ago
" Do you care to start doing it? " Unfortunately, I don't think I have the chops, nor the time right now. (But, fortunately, it may not even be necessary... see below.) " Other than doing your own, I think the most sensible choice is wxWidg
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by moder 18y ago
IIRC, FLTK had their 2.0 version in the works a long time ago ... and it just kept being in the works. They just never left their 1.x series. Was their redesign doomed to never replace 1.x?
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by moder 18y ago
Have you tried Tk8.5? It looks like there have been some pretty substantial improvements since 8.4.
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by moder 18y ago
Wait. http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.tml . Most recent release was ... last month. Looking at that list of Tk highlights, I'm getting the impression that various screenshots and wiki docs on the net are a tad out of date. It would s
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by moder 18y ago
Looking at the Tile screenshots for Unix, I don't see any that are antialiased (like the rest of my desktop), though "Revitalized" doesn't look bad at all. (Incidentally, Tile doesn't seem very active. It's last News page update is from 200
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by moder 18y ago
> How I wish I could forget Swing. Could you explain why? Last time I used Java ( years ago), Swing was supposedly replacing AWT. Swing seemed very large (certainly, judging by the page-count of all the Swing books on bookstore shelves
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Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?
28 points by moder 18y ago|55 comments