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On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:55, w robbi wrote:
> Rails falls in this question. Rails is more a new method or concept
> of programming than it is RUBY. The people who developed it, just
> happened to pick ruby as the core language. I think they were smart
> not to pick ADA, Fortran, or VMS/DCL?
I think saying Rails just "happened" to pick Ruby is kind of a stretch. =)
Everything in Rails is plain Ruby code; it's not an interpreter or new
language built with Ruby.
> Does ruby have a GUI interface?
>
> Major, After loathing the look and feel of a few TK GUIs I made in
> ruby, I moved to the GUI interface called "FOX". Under windows, Fox
> works perfectly. Linux is a little trickier. Installing FOX is a
> *itch. I would move to any Linux distribution, if they ever
> pre-installed the FOX / ruby programs. I'm a GUI lover. I always
> make pretty GUIs for everything I do. I try to make them as easy as
> possible to use for any one.
Installing is hard? Eh?
$ aptitude install libfox1.0-dev
It's available as a package most distributions--it's been in Debian since
1999. Or are you not talking about the great FOX toolkit with Ruby bindings
at <http://www.fox-toolkit.org/>?
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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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