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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Pert-bindings
From:       Sammy Ford <comrade () fuzed ! com>
Date:       1999-02-14 3:13:29
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Just as another side note what about java, that is growing in popularity at a fast
pace and it seems that KDE should also have bindings for that language. Any
suggestions on how to get these projects started, if need be i can provide webspace
and the like and even some code, even though that is not my strong point, :)

Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Sammy Ford wrote:
> >Dont get me wrong of course it would be better for all programmers to use C++ but
> >not all of them do, I'm not saying that parts of KDE should be written but as a
> >side project some one create other bindings for different languages so that the
> >number of potential applications developers would grow.
>
> Don't get me wrong :) There's definitely room for rapid prototyping languages
> and of course it is nice to have bindings for these, especially Perl.
>
> I just fall over the wording "success of tcl/tk". All I personally learned
> from it is that it's the wrong approach to do GUI programming. It's soooo
> powerful to have real classes for your own widgets rather then just lists of
> strings as one and only datatype. I saw a couple of ambitious tcl/tk projects
> failing due to this. At the beginning it looks always great, but after a while
> the complexity and lack of performance will bite you.
>
> Matthias

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