Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:03:02 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Book recommendations Message-ID: <9603150302.AA16949@tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960314173833.182B-100000@Kryten.nina.com> from Frank at "Mar 14, 96 05:47:37 pm"
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According to Frank: > > ...and in particular the TclX dialect. This gives you easy GUI programming, > > networking and just about everything (apart from fast math 8) that you could > > possibly want in a language. Being interpreted, it's also nice and easy > > to work with. > > Does being an interpreted language mean slow as molasses? If so, is there > another relatively easy to learn alternative for programming in X without > a speed hit? Is it feasible to program for X using straight C? I take it > as a given that C is the way to go for text based programs. True? > I have a good text that came with a disk full of X sample code. Given the examples plus the explaination of the text it is fairly simple to get into X-Window programming in C. The text is _Xlib by Example_ by M. Ali and C. Yang. gary kline >
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