> On Saturday 14 December 2002 15:49, KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > There's a prefectly terrific Perl/Tk library these days...
> > Isn't Tk the juice that gives Tcl its GUIs?? If so, I'd strongly
> > recommend it, it's what my wrapper to Blint/ launcher of DASM
> > that I'm working on is in.
>
> Getting Perl/Tk (or Perl with any other graphical toolkit) to work with t=
> he
> Perl compiler is an incredible pain in the ass. In fact, I don't believe=
> =20
> I've ever seen it work at all (it always requires the user to still insta=
> ll=20
> some Perl libraries on his machine and by no means fits on a floppy.) If=
> =20
ActiveState's PerlApp does the trick I think, and builds in that
floppy limit I think.
> Neither Perl nor Tcl compiles to native code; they both work by embedding=
>
> interpreter and the scripts/libraries/modules into one big file.
Right.
> Tcl's=20
> interpreter is about a quarter the size of Perl's and Tk is linked in. =20
> Getting external libraries to work with it is just as much of a pain but=20
> since the GUI is in there already you really don't need to.
Yeah, sometimes I wonder if PerlApp could make smaller binaries if it realized you weren't running "eval" statements...
> Sorry for the topic drift. If you'd like more of my thoughts about Tcl I=
> put=20
> a page up earlier this year about it:
>
Interesting.
I had to debug some Tcl back in the day. Never did like the syntax much.
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