From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T11:44:39+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

one word: GUtopIa

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:25, Edward Wilson wrote:
> > However, and there always is one, there is one thing that drags me back 
> > to Java which I despise. A cross platform GUI as standard. I think that 
> > this is what turned alot of people onto Java, I know it got me. Now if 
> > Ruby had one that was part of the standard install for all platforms 
> > (Windows, Linux, Macintosh as a minimum) then I could forget all about 
> > Java and clear some space on my bookshelf.
> > 
> > No Tk doesn't count!
> 
> This is one of the best most succint posts of the year!  I couldn't
> have said it any better; ditto brother.
> 
> I have been hoping that FOX would become Ruby's `standard' (for all
> platforms and part of the standard distro) GUI lib; as swing is to
> Java.
> 
> I too can get by writing everything I need as long as the basic
> building blocks are there.  Nowadays, if an app doesn't have a gui,
> being more than a shell script, it's destined for the thrash bin.
> 
> //ed
> 
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~transami