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On Thu, 04 Sep 1997 14:07:59 -0500, fdhnfu@vayvax.pbz wrote:

>In alt.os.linux Rachel Polanskis <rachel@virago.org.au> wrote:
>: I have a name for it.
>: It's called "application chauvinism".
><snip>
>: Now...
>: I am going to get flamed for this, but Linux programmers are getting just
>: as bad at it as MS programmers who are leaning heavily on VisualC++ and 
>: the like.
><snip>
>: The fact is that Linux applications are starting to become "not-UNIX"
>: because the developers are dropping code portability in favour 
>: of getting their latest app out. 
><snip>
>
>I don't think a flame is in order, I think it's about damn time someone
>said this.
>
>I may not be the best programmer, hell I might not even be a decent
>programmer, but everything I write, or have written, under Linux can be
>compiled er directly executed on just about anything. That means that in
>C, you can compile it as ANSI with no problems.
>
>Lately, I have been working with tcl/tk. Totally portable. On the fly
>compiling. Decent structuring, the language makes sense to me.  I
>reccomend it to anyone who is tired of C's little intrisnics between
>systems.  The best part is... It's ported to just about everything with a
>monitor and a keyboard. If you want to write spiffy graphical programs,
>use this instead of a proprietary library in C.
>
>label still feels like a typo when I type it though...
>
>- Josh

Agreed, Josh, but is tcl/tk that portable yet? Last time I tried a
Win95 version the association of .tcl extensions and wish did not work
for me, in any case you have to be careful of extensions in a DOS
derived environment.

And have you seen the scoop on _VBVM_- a Visual Basic 5 Virtual
Machine (read interpreter) for most platforms. Seems to bear out John
Ousterhout's ideas on the importance of scripting languages. (But its
not for free, this one.)

Harry