on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:13:13AM +0000, Ricardo Campos scribbled: [snip]
Problem is, of course, the platform specificity. And of course the M$ link. I know there are various scripting laguages out there, but I really need a simple GUI driven non-script language that I can compile for *nix and win32 (urgh!). The reason for non-scripted is that I would like to use subroutines for common functions. It only needs to handle very simple mathematical calculations. (I'm writing handy calculators for players of a wargame, probably mostly window$ users, but I'm a *nix user, obviously, so it has to have support for us!)
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Potentially, I would like to add these separate elements into one larger program (this is where I would perhaps prefer C). I *WOULDN'T* like to pick up a new language as complex as C *YET*, at least not until I learn to use C properly.
for c guis, there is glade, which is pretty good but still doesn't escape the language. have you considered python? it's object orietated, fairly simple and "compiles" into p-code whilst also is fairly portable. gui wise there's tkinter, wxWindows, gtk, kde, and opengl. oh, and google is built on it. http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.013.htp