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Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

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Subject: Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Date: 7 Apr 1997 20:22:17 GMT
Organization: Perl Consulting and Training
Reply-to: tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
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In comp.lang.perl.misc, 
    fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
:  toplevel .t
:  button .t.b -text Hi! -font {Times 16} -command {puts "Pressed at (%x,%y)"}
:  pack .t.b -fill both -expand 1
:
:The button now appears in a separate window to the main application
:window, and reports where it was pressed.  When this window is
:resized, the button will occupy any extra space allocated.  How much
:extra Lisp would be needed to achieve this?
:
:Unless you can do this in very few lines, the point about Tcl being
:better for some things would seem to be made amply to me.

Strange how often people seem to confuse Tk with Tcl.  You aren't
talking about Tcl here.

--tom
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        Tom Christiansen        tchrist@jhereg.perl.com

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