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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Pert-bindings
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-02-14 3:43:47
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Sammy Ford wrote:

> 
> Then what about the other languages that have been thrown around like
> Perl/C

C: it is not really all that hard to do.
I wrapped Qt 1.33 in a week, and adding classes should be very simple 
(it's done semi-automatically using a script).

Having said that, there's a problem of me not using it, and therefore, 
not updating it. Some of the pieces are crap (specifically the signal/ 
slot implementation sucks) but that's not really big work to get right.

Perl: No idea right now. 

> I know the python bindings are progressing rather nicely
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >  ("\''/").__..-''"`-. .         Roberto Alsina
> >  `9_ 9  )   `-. (    ).`-._.`)  ralsina@unl.edu.ar
> >  (_Y_.)' ._   ) `._`.  " -.-'   Centro de Telematica
> >   _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.'           Universidad Nacional del Litoral
> > (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.'             Santa Fe - Argentina
> >                                 KDE Developer (MFCH)
> > Life isn't short. It's just that death is longer.
> 
> 

 ("\''/").__..-''"`-. .         Roberto Alsina
 `9_ 9  )   `-. (    ).`-._.`)  ralsina@unl.edu.ar
 (_Y_.)' ._   ) `._`.  " -.-'   Centro de Telematica
  _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.'           Universidad Nacional del Litoral
(l)-'' ((i).' ((!.'             Santa Fe - Argentina
                                KDE Developer (MFCH)
Life isn't short. It's just that death is longer.

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