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Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"

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From: David M. Cook
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:00
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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.  A not yet organized intro is at

http://www.pythonware.com/fredrik/tkdraft/index.htm

Dave Cook
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From: davecook@home.com (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Gui tool similar to "Motif Tools"
Date: 1998/09/23
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