[Van-pm] September 8 Meeting - Speakers & Hosting

[Kevin Jones]

Is it just me, or did Jan just agree to give a talk on writing GUIs in perl?

Kevin

On 9 August 2010 19:42, Jan Dubois <jand at activestate.com> wrote:

> Andreas Hernitscheck wrote:
> > There is also a gui editor, But IMHO perl and guis is nothing I would
> > recommend at all.
>
> Why not?  Writing user-friendly GUIs in *any* language is hard work,
> and I think it is actually easier in dynamic languages than in say C++. :)
>
> At ActiveState we write all GUIs for Perl tools with Tkx (a binding to
> Tcl/Tk), which produces native GUIs for Windows, OS X and X-Windows,
> and I know others are pretty happy with wxPerl as cross-platform GUI
> toolkit as well.
>
> As for Tkx, I think the Perl-Critic GUI frontend included in the Perl
> Dev Kit looks pretty cool ( you can download a free trial if you want
> to try it out yourself, or just a demo on YouTube here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgykR6tHsRU ).
>
> But anyways, what is the reason you think GUIs and Perl don't mix?
>
> Cheers,
> -Jan
>
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