18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
8:48 a.m.
From: Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
>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.
Thanks. Shell scripts are always useful, no question about it.
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)
I am looking at TCL. It misses on some of my important criteria but it
seems to support GUI outstandingly.