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So, you're chugging along but don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Are you supposed to keep chugging (don't quit!) or "be very quick to change"? Hm.

Is webpy the Python equivalent of Perl's CGI::Application? Because I've used C::A in the past and liked its simplicity.

Where are all these Java libraries? Do you mean Java's standard library? I ask because, Perl has the CPAN, Python has PyPI, Ruby has RubyGems, etc., but what does Java have?

I think the one I've heard goes, the artist is imagining the sculpture beneath that lump of marble, and they explain the actual creation of it as just removing everything else that…

Interesting. http://www.modperlite.org/ The interview by chromatic was quite informative. Unfortunately, they say that they're forced to repeatedly reinitialize the perl interprete…

It was the safe and easy install for shared hosting providers plus the easy deployment for web devs. Really, it's a simple recipe. I'm still wondering why Perl/Python/Ruby/$fave_la…

The rule I try to follow is to keep things as simple as you can. So, the levels of complexity for writing an app might look like this: Level 1: command line program. Usable for you…

" Do you care to start doing it? " Unfortunately, I don't think I have the chops, nor the time right now. (But, fortunately, it may not even be necessary... see below.) " Other tha…

IIRC, FLTK had their 2.0 version in the works a long time ago ... and it just kept being in the works. They just never left their 1.x series. Was their redesign doomed to never rep…

Have you tried Tk8.5? It looks like there have been some pretty substantial improvements since 8.4.

Wait. http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.tml . Most recent release was ... last month. Looking at that list of Tk highlights, I'm getting the impression that various screenshots …

Looking at the Tile screenshots for Unix, I don't see any that are antialiased (like the rest of my desktop), though "Revitalized" doesn't look bad at all. (Incidentally, Tile does…

> How I wish I could forget Swing. Could you explain why? Last time I used Java ( years ago), Swing was supposedly replacing AWT. Swing seemed very large (certainly, judging by the…

It's interesting but disappointing that there's no standout "winner" among desktop GUI toolkits. Among other things, devs want to write software that runs on their favorite GNU/Lin…