Which language will do?

[wizard at neonedge.com (Wizard)]

I'd suggest either Perl/Tk or Tcl/Tk. The 'Tk' is a GUI toolkit that works
on Windows, *NIX, and I believe OSX and 9. I learned Tcl in under 2 weeks,
but I really didn't do anything other than play with Tk, so I can't tell you
how long that would take. Learning to use Perl is likely going to take a bit
longer (only because it's less structured).
Grant M.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Jared Michaels
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Which language will do?
>
>
> I guess I need to be a little clearer -- I'm looking to create a
> stand-alone document reader, not a web-based application. Something that
> could fit on a CD, or installed from a CD, or downloaded as a Zip and
> installed that way.
>
> Nathan: Yes, PHP would be my preference, but it is, of course,
> server-based. I've tried a PHP compiler, the only php compiler
> I've found,
> but it doesn't want to work on Win2k.
>
> Brian: No, I haven't tried Perl. Does Perl work for stand-alone apps?
>
> Thanks very much.
> Jared
>
> ----------
> What I wrote before:
> ----------
> Hi Everyone.
>
> I'm new here and I have some specific linux questions, but first I have
> another that's more important to me.
>
> I'm trying to build a document reader for a friend of mine. He uses the
> JAWS Reader for the blind, so I've been creating this reader with MS HTML
> Help for Windows, and generating the documents using PHP on
> Linux. It seems
> to be the easiest and most accessible thing that I've found that
> can handle
> such large documents.
>
> The problem is that I can't make it interactive -- I want to be able to
> include things like a search engine (something other than the HTML Help
> search engine), saving bookmarks, search queries, and user preferences.
> I've been using VBscript, but when I try to use the
> FileSystemObject I get
> a security warning. MS says this can be fixed by using a digital
> certificate, but that's out of my price range. This is a not-for-profit
> project and I don't want to spend any money on it.
>
> So, here's what I need help with. I need to find a programming language
> that is easy for someone like me to understand -- someone who has
> years of
> scripting and object-oriented language experience (VBA, Javascript,
> VBScript, PHP, etc.), and can, with the right documentation and
> environment, learn quickly; a language that is cross-platform --
> compatible
> with at least Windows, Linux, and Mac OS 9 or 10; something
> that's free and
> can be built in a Linux environment (I have Suse Linux 7.3, but
> be gentle,
> I'm a little green); and something that can be easily deployed without a
> lot of user intervention.
>
> I've been struggling with this problem for weeks, so I'd appreciate any
> suggestions.
>
> Thanks much.
> Jared
>
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