Slashdot: Perl Domination in CGI Programming?

[Mike Stanczyk]

Here's a question for you: Long time ago I used a gui builder program that
was written in tcl/tk and generated tcl/tk code for the gui as you built it.
Do you know of anything simlar that outputs perl/tk code?

Mike

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, HoltryF wrote:

> I've been following the development of Perl/Tk for more than two years,now.
> It's one of the more active areas of Perl development.  It does indeed keep
> up with Tcl/Tk, but is a complete port to Perl.  That is, all the Tcl code
> is replaced either by Perl or by C.  I would take some exception to the
> statement that the syntaxes are tcl'ish.  Actually, they're Perl object
> and hash reference notation.  Most of the widgets and most of their options
> would be familiar to Tcl/Tk users, but this is an area where divergence is
> beginning to happen.  New widgets are appearing frequently and new options are
> added to old widgets on occasion.  The current release is Tk800.015, based on 
> the Ousterhout Tk8.
> 
> For those who are interested, there's a public mailing list for Perl/Tk at
> ptk at lists.stanford.edu.  There is also a useful O'Reilly publication "Learning
> Perl/Tk" by Nancy Walsh.  
> 
> There's an excellent graphical Perl debugger, ptkdb, written in Perl/Tk, that's
> available from http://world.std.com/~aep/ptkdb.
> 
> And one final thought: ActiveState (www.activestate.com) provides a Tk for 
> their Perl for Win-doze.  But the Tk available from CPAN will now build with
> VC++ nmake and seems to work better for me.  Either way, you get native
> windows and virtually complete application portability.
> 
> 
> > -Jason
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >-- End of excerpt from Jason Wells
> 
> Frank Holtry
> 
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