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Silas
May 23, 2012, 5:27:20 PM5/23/12
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Hello all,
My vacations. I decided to learn some programming languages in three
hobby projects. I've been programming in C (structured), C++ and Java
(with more or less OO) for some time being. I had three hobby projects
- with GUI - and wanted to implement each of them in different
languages.
To my first problem I've chosen Tcl/Tk (that I used long ago). Got
surprised to see how Tcl evolved and new OO capabilities it has now
built in. Tk is still simple and really nice. I've used Tcl/Tk
successfully to solve my problem. Still think that the typelessness of
Tcl is still its wonder and its biggest flaw.
For the second problem I have already chosen Python + wxWidgets, but I
haven't started yet.
But I haven't chose the language for the third problem. Let me tell
you some of the things the language (and the GUI toolkit) should
attend:
* Have to be implemented in Unix, but have to be deployed in both Unix
and Windows. Must behave equally (Tcl/Tk does it wonderfully);
* Have to have bindings to a multiplatform toolkit (Tk? wxWidgets?
Qt?);
* Have to have bindings to SQL databases, preferably with a database
abstraction layer;
* Points to a functional programming language.
I've been thinking of:
* Ruby: Nice language, but I can learn it when studying Rails
sometime.
* Lua: I really wanted to learn that, but since it was designed to be
embedded, I'm not sure about the stability of its libraries for
generic programming. Any tips?
* Perl: Nice language to learn, too. But there are tons of projects
using it that I could easily learn it studying one of the tools I
already use.
* Erlang: Really wanted to learn that. wxErlang looks nice too. But
99% of it seem to be used for real distributed and concurrent work and
I just want a GUI application that shows some data store in SQL
database...
* Haskell: Similar to Erlang.
* Objective-C: Can't say. Never really worked with it.
More "uncommon" languages (at least in my environment):
* Smalltalk
* Icon
* OCaml
Any tips?
Thank you.
My vacations. I decided to learn some programming languages in three
hobby projects. I've been programming in C (structured), C++ and Java
(with more or less OO) for some time being. I had three hobby projects
- with GUI - and wanted to implement each of them in different
languages.
To my first problem I've chosen Tcl/Tk (that I used long ago). Got
surprised to see how Tcl evolved and new OO capabilities it has now
built in. Tk is still simple and really nice. I've used Tcl/Tk
successfully to solve my problem. Still think that the typelessness of
Tcl is still its wonder and its biggest flaw.
For the second problem I have already chosen Python + wxWidgets, but I
haven't started yet.
But I haven't chose the language for the third problem. Let me tell
you some of the things the language (and the GUI toolkit) should
attend:
* Have to be implemented in Unix, but have to be deployed in both Unix
and Windows. Must behave equally (Tcl/Tk does it wonderfully);
* Have to have bindings to a multiplatform toolkit (Tk? wxWidgets?
Qt?);
* Have to have bindings to SQL databases, preferably with a database
abstraction layer;
* Points to a functional programming language.
I've been thinking of:
* Ruby: Nice language, but I can learn it when studying Rails
sometime.
* Lua: I really wanted to learn that, but since it was designed to be
embedded, I'm not sure about the stability of its libraries for
generic programming. Any tips?
* Perl: Nice language to learn, too. But there are tons of projects
using it that I could easily learn it studying one of the tools I
already use.
* Erlang: Really wanted to learn that. wxErlang looks nice too. But
99% of it seem to be used for real distributed and concurrent work and
I just want a GUI application that shows some data store in SQL
database...
* Haskell: Similar to Erlang.
* Objective-C: Can't say. Never really worked with it.
More "uncommon" languages (at least in my environment):
* Smalltalk
* Icon
* OCaml
Any tips?
Thank you.
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