[Novalug] Fwd: Inventing new languages

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Fri Dec 26 14:16:37 EST 2008


When you find where you left your brain, would you help Charlie finds his. He
seems to think he lost it (I don't).

;)

Jay

> For some reason I can not remember to click Reply to All today.... (see
> below)
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> K
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ken Kauffman <kkauffman@headfog.com>
> Date: Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 13:17
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Inventing new languages
> To: Clif Flynt <clif@cflynt.com>
>
>
> I used to LOVE Pascal.  I learned it on an Apple IIe in high school (1985)
> on a Corvis LAN.  The instructor had us create our own font library (from
> bits) and then we had to write a calendar program that used our own font.
>
> Back then, fonts were a big deal to create and use.
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:49, Clif Flynt <clif@cflynt.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:15:33AM -0500, Charles M Howe wrote:
>> > ...
>> > I would give my eye teeth, or maybe my first born, to be fluent in
>> > Pascal, including the graphical part. Is that part of the standard
>> > distribution or is that wxpython only?
>> >
>>
>>  I've not done any Pascal in 20 years, but I think you might be
>> merging Pascal and Python.
>>
>>  Pascal had no real I/O, and no concept of graphics at all. Maybe
>> there's been some libraries (like a pascal->libx11 link) created since
>> I worked with it, but I'm not familiar with them.
>>
>>  Python is a modern scripting/dynamic language.  It supports several
>> graphics tools including Tk, gTk and Wx.
>>
>>  I can't help you with Python or Pascal, but if you want to learn
>> Tcl (and the Tk graphics), you can get TclTutor from:
>> http://www.msen.com/~clif <http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif>
>>
>>  And you might enjoy
>> http://www.cwflynt.com/TclForTeens
>>
>>  Clif
>>
>> --
>> ... Clif Flynt ... http://www.cwflynt.com ... clif@cflynt.com ...
>> .. Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide (2nd edition) - Morgan Kauffman ..
>> .... 16'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference:  2009,  West Coast, USA ....
>> .............  http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/  ............
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