clipka wrote:
> Ah well - apparently Tcl with Tk 8.5 is the way for me to go: Readily 
> available for my Linux (openSUSE) machine, including some 
> can-do-all-you'll-ever-need table widget (Tktable), support for widget 
> themes (via the Ttk package), and sqlite3 (via the sqlite3 package); to 
> my pleasant surprise, the same functionality is available "ready to 
> rock" for Windows as well (via ActiveTcl); and the language is ugly as 
> hell - so all in all it's pretty much the right stuff for me...

Note that you can get the free version of everything from ActiveTcl if you 
like.  The language isn't *too* ugly. It's just not all complex syntax infix 
stuff.   Read the twelve (now 13?) rules of syntax, and believe them. The 
way to understand the syntax is to realize the program never looks at the 
same character twice while parsing - i.e., it never ever backs up during 
parsing.

There's a lot of other good packages, too, and it's pretty trivial to write 
extensions that would let you (for example) run a program and collect the 
child runtimes, if [exec] doesn't already do that.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Is God willing to prevent naglams, but unable?
     Then he is not omnipotent.
   Is he able, but not willing, to prevent naglams?
     Then he is malevolent.

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