From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA31053; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:57:39 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA28278 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:57:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from imac.sobor.org (adsl-63-198-183-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.198.183.99]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h7A1vaf17345 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 03:57:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quasar.ipa.nw.ru (unknown [192.168.123.51]) by imac.sobor.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4CA102ADCF; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F35A58E.3030804@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 18:53:18 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" Organization: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacques Garrigue Cc: skaller@ozemail.com.au, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Tcl/Tk and RH 9 References: <1060394583.12630.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030809211030X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <1060446815.10145.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030810104355T.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20030810104355T.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; voinov:01 quasar:01 caml-list:01 jacques:01 ozemail:01 archaic:01 alexander:01 garrigue:01 face:98 opengl:02 ipa:02 wrote:03 installed:04 tcl:05 redhat:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi All, Jacques Garrigue wrote: > From: skaller > >>Just a comment: I have just installed RedHat 9 on my box. >>Tcl/Tk is no longer a standard package, which is as it should be, >>its an old, archaic system which no longer deserves any support. > > > RedHat is free to decide whatever they want, but Tk is still the > simplest way to develop some software. If a biotech witness means anything, I have just two commercial examples recently: Partek is using Tcl for internal (user-available) scripting and just yesterday we had a demo in-house, by the author, of the PyMOL package, which is written using Tkinter and OpenGL. I do not mean that this would turn me to like Tcl/Tk, but this is the reality we face. Alexander ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners