Category Archives: TCL/Tk

Simplicity

March 26, 2008 – 5:29 pm

I was thinking through about the design of a software that I am working on.
One of the objective that I would want it to achieve is, Simplicity.
Consider this. How many of the built-in features that comes with your mobile phone do you use on a regular basis ?
3-5 maybe. Phone, SMS, Camera ? What else?
If [...]

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Should REBOL be renamed?

April 9, 2007 – 10:49 pm

Carl posted an interesting question on his blog.
Should REBOL be renamed?
This arise from a commercial deployment of REBOL where corporate IT staffs not familiar with REBOL start thinking that it is some kind of rogue processes.
I posted my thoughts on the blog.
To me, the million dollar question is not “Should we change the name?”. Rather, [...]

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Is Tcl/Tk Dying?

September 27, 2006 – 11:29 am

A recent discussion on whether Tcl/Tk is dying leads to a humourous writeup of a not too distant future by Mark Roseman.
Snips :
“Scene: A run down shop at the end of a long, mostly deserted street. A cracked and weather-beaten sign, obviously from the mid-90’s, hangs over a large boarded up window. It [...]

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