[MacPerl] Re : MacPerl/Tk, FaceSpan, Send Data and friends (fwd)

[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

According to Georg Bauer:
> I think you don't get it here. I don't want to communicate with an
> external application because AppleEvent is slow. And for sure I do not
> want to communicate with something built on AppleScript, because
> AppleScript gives a whole now definition to the word "slow".
<snip>

This is a toughie.  The problem here is that each of the
major OS's (ie: Mac, IBM, Unix) use their own windowing OS
and none of them look or work the same way.  This is also
the major stumbling block to Perl being the next web server
and programming language to take the world by storm.
(Although it does seem to be catching on quite well - I get
three to four requests for help here at work a month
whereas before I used to get "Huh?  What's Perl?".)

But this is the nature of Perl anyway.  Perl is text
oriented - not graphics oriented.  So graphics are kind of
an after thought to how Perl runs.

So my suggestion is: Use BASIC.  Chipmunk Basic is free and
runs on the IBM, Mac, and Unix.  For something as simple as
throwing up forms CB is great.  But the real treat to CB is
that it does have the capability to launch other programs
from itself.  So what you do is to bring up CB, do your
form, get the information, and then launch MacPerl (or
Perl) and have it process the information.  In this way you
get the best of both worlds.  :-)  CB can be found through
Yahoo!.

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