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Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <slrn70j208.gt6.davecook@rama.escnd1.sdca.home.com>
           davecook@home.com "David M. Cook" writes:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 98 21:00:31 GMT, Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >My understanding of Tcl is that it is not a particularly good 
> >language for manipulating data structures and algorithms (I've not
> >actually used it, but it looks more like sh or csh than a real
> >programming langauge to me).
> 
> I'm of the same opinion.  But people have written amazingly polished apps
> with it. 
> 
> A good alternative that uses a real programming language would be
> Python/Tkinter. 

Yes, I'm just learning Python right now. it seems very clean and
expressive. Like Perl but without the wierd syntax.

> A not yet organized intro is at
> 
> http://www.pythonware.com/fredrik/tkdraft/index.htm

I'll give it a look.

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"
Date: 1998/09/25
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