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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Pert-bindings
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-02-14 3:19:13
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Sammy Ford wrote:

> 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, :)

Sadly, there is really no simple way to bind java to anything.
There are difficult ways, and there are really, really difficult ways, 
though ;-)

> 
> 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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