Re: Tcl/Tk on Windows and Mac

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> The newly released beta versions of Tk and Tcl include support
> for Windows (NT, 95, and 3.1 with Win32s) and Macintosh.  The
> toy program I tried worked fine on my Windows95 machine.  The
> user interface is decidedly X-like rather than looking like a
> Windows application... but it does hold promise for yet another
> cross-platform application solution.

Tk and Tcl are pretty slow.  I know this issue has been argued
about again and again, but I think Java has much more potential.
I've read that in the future the Java applications should
run as fast as a C++ compiled application.  How is this possible?

The only Tcl Tk applications I use are:

	Tkman  -  too slow to be used most of the time
	zircon -  great interface but it hangs if it can't access
			the irc server
	TkIned -  This one is pretty good.  I have no complaints

IMHO Tk/Tcl applications might be more fun to build than to use.

Any word on whether I can compile a java application (not applet)
on Linux?

Regards,
Craig


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