Re: rotflmao

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:52:20PM +0000 +++
Elliot Lee e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:53:41 -0500, William Allen <ballen@ms.com> wrote:
> >Matthias Warkus wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Suggestion: If you both are keen to write Gnome apps, and you don't
> >> know C, why don't you try Python?
> >> 
> >> (gnome-python is wonderful; I downloaded it yesterday, and I'm
> >> fascinated)
> >> 
> >
> >I second this suggestion. Not trying to start a lang war. I use c, love it,
> >make my living with it, but for my 'fun' stuff these days I use python. 
> >Gtk-python is great, just got gnome-python - same author, expect same 
> >high quality. 
> >
> >Python should be easier to learn, and is orders of magnitude faster in the
> >development cycle (obviously not runtime).
> 
> FWIW, here is the list of languages that have been known to have gtk+ and
> possibly GNOME bindings. Try one, try them all! (Some of them may be in
> the "hack one, hack them all" state... :) 
> 
> Please add any I've missed.
> 	Ada
> 	C
> 	C++
> 	Dylan
> 	Java
> 	Objective C
> 	Perl
> 	Python
> 	Scheme (guile)
> 	TOM
> 
> All we need now is English bindings for GNOME,

Yeah... ;)

On a more serious note, which ones of these sets of bindings have
actually been used to create useful application?

C, of course; C++; Objective C; and isn't Cromagnon a Scheme app?

Anyway, the bulk of the existing apps looks pretty C-centric. It
strikes me that it'd be nice to have the implementation language
listed along with all the other information in the Gnome Software
Map...

mawa
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