On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:34:54 +0200, Johannes Hubert <jhu### [at] algonetse> wrote:
>Nieminen Mika wrote in message <35efc03b.0@news.povray.org>...
>>Rik Ling <rli### [at] pipcomcom> wrote:
>>: Have you considered (yikes!) Java?
>>
>>  I think that Java is not an option nowadays, because:
>>
>>  a) Java is slow.
>[snip]
>That may be so, under the the circumstances you describe. But the original
>poster seriously considers using Tcl/Tk and that is an interpreted language,
>not like Java, where precompiled bytecode is running through a virtual
>machine...

Not to get in a religious war or anything, but Tk doesn't have to be used with
Tcl.  It can also be used with Perl, which is compiled bytecode running through
a virtual machine.  You can probably even use Tk with that weird caffeine-cult 
solution-in-search-of-a-problem.

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