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Re: Ousterhout is partially right (was: Re: Ousterhout lost the plot)

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Subject: Re: Ousterhout is partially right (was: Re: Ousterhout lost the plot)
From: Graham Matthews <graham.matthews@maths.anu.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 13:58:43 +1000
Organization: Department of Mathematics, ANU
Koen Claessen wrote:
> What do you think of type classes?
> ...
> 
> My experience with TkGofer is that it is even more concise than Tcl, _due_
> to the expressiveness of strong typing, type classes, and functional
> programming in general.

I'll second this opinion. I wrote a GUI using TkGofer and it was most
concise and reliable. Far more so than similar things I have written in
Tcl and in Python. The type checking proved very useful -- I had no
problems with TkGofer's strong static typing (ie. it never got in the
way). It's just a pity that TkGofer is hooked up to Tk (I can't stand
the eventloop model of GUIs -- give me threaded GUIs any day!).

graham
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