Which language will do?

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:53:37PM -0500, Wizard wrote:
> 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.

I can't agree with that last assertion. Perl is *far* more like the
scripting languages Jared is used to!

Either language lets you get to the Tk toolkit. (Tk is actually a toolkit
for Tcl - it was grafted to Perl as a relatively quick, and apparently
durable, alternative to developing a GUI for Perl.)

Nathan

> 
> 
> > -----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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