Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 11:53 -0400 98/08/10, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 11.00 -0400 1998.08.10, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That is a very good and important point, however, consider that in some
> ways you can test Perl code more easily than C code.  Make a change, hit
> command-shift-R.

Also, consider if you will, those of us who don't have a decent C compiler
on our Macs :-)  That is, for some of us the goal is not, precisyl, to
prototype ;-)

I have the MPW C compiler (I don't use it, but I have it) but Think C /
Symantec / Metrowerks all cost money and I haven't (yet) seen the GNU c
compiler ported to the Mac.

Besides which, I don't actually like C very much.  And I like C++ less.

So now the question could be turned to: is there a faster way to prototype
the GUI before casting it in MacPerl?

What about FaceSpan?

muddying the waters -

Vicki
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