17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
4:57 p.m.
vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
To change the subject yet again in this thread...now
that most of us agree
C is not much more than a (possibly bad) high level assembler, what does
everybody recommend for a general purpose UNIX programming language? Seems
to me nothing has the library, GUI support etc. like C and C++ do, but
those languages seem suboptimal for most things. I write almost no code on
UNIX because I haven't ever found a traditional compiled language I like
that has enough support to make it usable.
I seem to split my coding time evenly between C, Java and - shock, horror -
good ol' shell scripts, depending on requirements. I don't think C's ever
automatically the wrong choice for anything - it just takes discipline to
use it well.
What I'm yet to find is anything with good GUI support, though - by 'good'
I mean 'quick to implement', not necessarily feature-rich. Every time I
need a GUI for something I seem to spend a ridiculous amount of time having
to learn how to throw a few buttons and whatnot up on the screen (for most
things I can use an ASCII-based UI, thankfully, but there are some times
when a few graphical widgets would be handy)
cheers
Jules