[lug] Programming

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 02-21 13:51, jd wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi jd,
> > 
> > Since you're contemplating a jump from PERL to C++ or from PERL to VB,
> > why not move from PERL to Java?  Java is yet another language with
> > C-like syntax and with Java you'd get:
> > 
> >   1) a free (as in beer) SDK and runtime
> > 
> >   2) easier (than C/C++) memory management
> > 
> >   3) an *immense* range of free (again, as in beer) and 
> >      remarkably well-documented libraries for various 
> >      problem domains, and
> > 
> >   4) a framework thats about as close to WORA (write once 
> >      run anywhere) as anything currently gets.
> > 
> > Ed
> 
> Thank you for the idea Ed. I had not considered Java. I will have
> to look into it. Are there nice GUI widgets like in perl/tk ? 

And how. You can build virtually any GUI with Java's Swing library.

Java Swing apps can be a bit bloated, though, so make sure you have beefy
client machines if you go this route.

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