Re: [wxperl-users] porting a perl/tk application to perl/wx

[Bob H. <cat...@ya...>]

Being "dead", for a software, means that no one uses
it.
Or rather, it is used only by a few lovers. But love
is 
a form of folly; you do not see it for what it truly
is.

I like Tk because 

1. it is well documented (new users can learn it, with
no need to write the documentation, given that they
cannot write what they are supposed to learn in the
first place)

2. it is intellectually manageable (Tk was designer by
Prof. John Ousterhout, who conceived it as such. You
first draw by hand your interface, with paper and
pencil, then convert the design into code, leveraging
on intuition and using code that actually means
something with respect to the design.)

By comparison, wxPerl is not documented at all (new
users have to read wxPerl's source code to understand
what and how they can do with it), and it is not
intellectually manageable (the API is
counterintuitive, as it does not follow the standard
philosophy of PERL,  and the code includes all sorts
of objects that have no reference to the design, that
is, objects that you can only see with the mind, not
with your eyes when looking at the drawings). The only
way to use wxPerl is via an interface builder, which
does all the coding for you, and you have to trust it,
and like it, for whatever code it generates, even when
this code clutters your own and keeps clashing with
your real tasks.

Life does not need to be that hard. I understand that
you like it that way, but hey! There are people who
like suffering. I am not one of them.

Bob



 
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