From: claird@... (Cameron Laird)
Date: 2000-12-29T09:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8209] Re: GUIs for Rubies

In article <LAW2-F88rQ1LQGsAtej00003f23@hotmail.com>,
Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Perl's lack of stable threading makes it unsuitable for all
>but the simplest GUI applications.  Tk is a good fit for
>very simple applications.
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I don't get your point.  I agree that Perl's threading
has a way to go, although it might be better now than
you realize.  Are you proposing that threading is the
only legitimate concurrency model for sophisticated GUI
work?  That's ... well, that's not how I think about
GUIs.
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