Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 12:21:27 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pib comments. Message-ID: <E0vgbep-00012z-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 17:16:30 MST." <32CDA15E.784C@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <32CDA15E.784C@fsl.noaa.gov> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970103145502.14712a-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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In message <32CDA15E.784C@fsl.noaa.gov> Kelly writes: : We're using Tcl/Tk as part of our modernization for the National Weather : Service and it blows the wheels off of OI (sorry, Warner) and competes : easily with Motif. I've developed complex user interfaces with it for : FreeBSD and they work amazingly fast. We've had different experiences then. Tk is pathologically non-orthogonal which makes it hard to learn and hard to use. Tcl tends to be fairly slow, but generally fast enough for GUI things. I found that tcl/Tk were painfully slow on my 486 DX 33, but OI was quite useable. Oh well, different strokes for different folks I guess. The C++ compile time really sucked, however, which can make development faster with tcl/Tk. Too bad none of the gui builders for it can hold a candle to ObjectBuilder :-). Warner
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