From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T06:16:41+09:00
Subject: Re: quick noob questino: GUIs

Matt Roth wrote:

> Does Ruby support GUIs?

The One Click Installer for Win32, at RubyForge, supports FOX, Tk, and I 
suspect raw Win32. Download them and try them, and you will be GUI-ing 
before you know it.

Many other GUI bindings are variously available, including Qt, KDE, 
wxWidgets, FTLK (?), and various systems to support HTML & HTTP.

Now about the philosophy of your question. It is unfortunate that Visual 
Basic, Delph, and Java have leverage the idea that a language and a GUI must 
somehow form this incestuous bond, so you can't have a GUI without its 
attendant language, and vice versa. The best situation is a GUI and a 
language that both support sufficiently clean abstractions they can 
interface with each other easily but optionally.

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  Phlip
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