Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.v04011711b1f48ca14709@[192.168.0.3]>, Chris Nandor
<pudge@pobox.com> wrote:

>Why would MacPerl _not_ be good for prototyping GUIs?  Is it because the
>direct access to the toolbox is almost as slow as doing it in C to being
>with?  :)

Ha--you jest yet that _was_ what I had in mind. :)

>From what I've seen (and I haven't worked with them extensively), using
the Toolbox modules results in code which is almost a line-by-line
translation of what you would do in C. So, if the goal is to prototype
(ie, write a quick version to experiment and then a final version in C),
you might as well just write it in C--it won't take any more code, and
when you are done prototyping, you are _done_--you don't have to translate
back into C, and you won't have wasted time writing the C-to-Perl adaptor
code. And if you write it in C++ using a framework, it will be even less
work. This is just the impresssion that I get.
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