From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T08:13:40+09:00
Subject: Re: SIMPLE! and INTUITIVE! GUI BUILDER for RUBY?


On May 8, 2007, at 8:02 AM, John Carter wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2007, gcarcass wrote:
>
>> Is there any, SIMPLE software that I can use to build GRAPHIC  
>> INTERFACES
>> for Ruby scripts? a kind of VISUALbasic or REALbasic or even Xcode
>> alike?
>
> If you really care about SIMPLE, EASY, and INTUITIVE.....
>
> Has the thought occurred to you that a well thought out command line
> interface is simpler to use, integrates superbly with other
> applications and takes easily a full order of magnitude less time to
> write & debug than a GUI even with the best GUI builders?
>
> Just putting my 2c worth in favour of utter simplicity.
>
> No software is faster than no software.
>
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>
All depends on what you want to do. Command line interfaces do not  
get used by the general public!
GUI apps do.