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

[Georg_Bauer@muensterland.org (Georg Bauer)]

Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. <mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov> wrote:

> So my suggestion is: Use BASIC.

Yuck! No, not an option.

Actually the Toolbox-Bindings _are_ quite usefull. I just have to look
deeper into the examples, I think. And I have to read those articles
posted some day ago.

Perl has one problem: everything you write directly in Perl with
Perl-Source is in danger of getting slow, because of the interpreted
nature of Perl. You can often easily circumvent that by relying heavily
on the Perl builtins and on available extensions. That's what the
Toolbox-wrapper are. But if those extensions are external applications
on the Mac, you get a second source of slowness: parameter-conversion
with AppleEvents. Ok, you _can_ circumvent that, too. But it would be
better (IMO) to have native GUI capabilities in Perl that do simple
things like progress-bars or simple dialogs and such (yes, I know,
that's in the examples to the Toolbox - I promise I will look into it).

TK on the other hand is ugly. It's awfull. And not the fastest. But it
is portable, so you can develop your script on MacOS and run it on
Windows or Unix. That's a big pro for TK. Actually it's the only I can
think of ;-)

bye, Georg

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