From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-01-17T13:58:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

 --- Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote: 

> TCL/TK gets used a lot in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation)
> industry.  
> It's a postitively awful language, yet there are some fairly good sized 
> GUIs written with it.  

Oh, what is wrong with it? Certainly, I think it is nice fast means of
generating a GUI. If you're that unhappy with it, try looking at the
bindings to fltk.
 
> If TCL can be used for such things, surely Ruby can be with great 
> improvements in productivity, OOness, even speed (TCL is very slow).

It's only slow if you try writing an implementation of say "mozilla".

-- Thomas Adam

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