[ruby-talk:04279] Re: Ruby.next, Perl6, Python 3000, Tcl++, etc. -- Any opportunities for common implementation code?

Hi,

Cameron Laird wrote:

> HOWEVER, I am *very* optimistic about less lofty but more
> focused attempts to co-operate.  Tk's a good example.  Even
> without "big" solutions, it'd be a great thing for Rubyists,
> Pythonians, and so on all to join in the TkGS design rewrite,
> as well as contribute new widgets, correct OS-specific
> blemishes, and do other such deeds for the common good.  The
> Tcl maintenance organization is in the middle of reorganizing
> to make it more feasible for "outsiders" to join in.  I see
> benefits to all the languages from this kind of co-operation.
> Similarly, even if Perl and Python can't share RE implementa-
> tations at an object-code level, at least their maintainers
> can talk together and solve problems with only half the ef-
> fort.

Great.

Along another dimension, are there any synergy prospects between Tk and other
portable GUI libraries (either co-operative, or code-copying), such wxWindows and
fltk and so on?

> I'm collecting notes on these subjects at
> <URL:http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.misc/polyglot.html>,
> among other places.

Thanks.


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Conrad Schneiker
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