Re: [guy@localhost: IPMT specen.]
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:34:25 +0200
- Organisation: VIA NET.WORKS Nederland
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-On [20010419 18:09], Jasper Wallace (jasper@localhost) wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Guy Vegoda wrote:
>
>> Hi there all you internet people!
>
>Hello.
>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1. Which platforms are we looking to support?
>>
>> I think that UNIX platforms would be easier for
>> development, and would cover the needs of the
>> majority of users. Also, ala Perl.
>>
>> A gui provides windows users with an opportunity
>> to use the sotware too.
>>
>> The same could be achieved on a win32 platform
>> under visual basic, but this would strain the GNU
>> lisence considerable, as well as denying use by
>> the UNIX users amongst us.
>
>FWIW Perl with the TK toolkit/widget set runs under both *nix and
>Windows.
>
>I still would prefer a web based solution.
>
>WRT people's comments about php vs. perl - php is very easy to learn, and
>it's very easy with perl to write code in such a way as to render it
>incomprehensible to anyone else (or to anyone who dosn't understand you
>particular dialect of perl).
>
>also doing compilcated datastructures in perl is a pain.
>
>you can't (afaik) do non web based gui's in php tho.
Actually you can make cross platform non web based gui's in php using
php-gtk (you obviously have to use the php binary and not the apache
module!)
I like php for frontend's (never tried php-gtk tho :), but perl has all
these modules on cpan....
>
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