Slashdot: Perl Domination in CGI Programming?
HoltryF
fholtry at bighorn.dr.lucent.com
Fri Nov 5 08:19:39 CST 1999
Mike,
I think you're referring to spectcl. There is a port of it to Perl, but
it's challenging to use. It's been a couple of years since I last looked at
it and I know there have been some efforts to improve it, but comments I
heard at the O'Reilly conference lead me to think it's still got a ways to go.
It's called specPerl and is available from
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~kvale/specperl.html
Frank
On Nov 4, 2:41pm, Mike Stanczyk wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | Frank Holtry | "If you have the right attitude, interesting |
> > | fholtry at lucent.com | problems will find you." |
> > | | Eric S. Raymond |
> > | | |
> > | | "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" |
> > | | (http://earthspace.net/~esr/writings/ |
> > | | cathedral-paper.html#toc13) |
> > | | |
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>-- End of excerpt from Mike Stanczyk
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| Frank Holtry | "If you have the right attitude, interesting |
| fholtry at lucent.com | problems will find you." |
| | Eric S. Raymond |
| | |
| | "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" |
| | (http://earthspace.net/~esr/writings/ |
| | cathedral-paper.html#toc13) |
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