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On Wed, 23 Sep 98 21:00:31 GMT, Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980923131918.19505B-100000@wks9.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de>
>           thayer@mpivision.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de "Michael Thayer" writes:
>> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Phil Hunt wrote:
>> > One thing that would be useful for Linux would be a RAD (Rapid
>> > Applications Development) tool.
>> [...]
>> > The way Xmt worked was that the programmer wrote the design of the
>> > window in an Xresource file for the application, in a very high level
>> > format. A tool like that takes more time to initially learn than
>> > drawing the UI straight on the screen, but once learnt is quick to use
>> > and flexible.
>> [...]
>> > Does anything like this currently exist for Linux? 
>> 
>> What about Tcl/Tk/Tix? 
>
>What's Tix?
>
>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).

There are an assortment of opinions surrounding Tcl.  I'll stay clear of
that. 

Tcl's "graphical side" is "Tk," which is a multiplatform GUI that is
known to (at least) run on X, Mac, and the various MS-Windows
platforms. 

Tk often appears somewhat directed towards use with Tcl, but that is not
mandatory.  There are bindings for Tk for almost any language you might
care to name; COBOL and FORTRAN are amongst the few notable languages
for which I am *not* aware of Tk bindings.  (And I could easily be wrong
about FORTRAN.)

Tk is quite well-liked; performance issues have generally been
associated with Tcl, which, in earlier implementations, was not real
efficient at handling some sorts of data structures due to treating
everything as strings.  Tcl 8.x is reportedly "type aware" and thus
somewhat more efficient... 

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