[ILUG] [OT] Which programming language ?

[John Moylan]

Erm, who said there was no Java Gui Builder?

Eclipse, Netbeans for starters sonny!

James McCarthy wrote:
> if you want a cross platform desktop app then id recomend
> perl/gtk2/glade or possibly python/gtk2/glade
> but to be able to use the app on any machine they need perl/python &
> gtk2 installed.
> if you want programming language & GUI wrapped up in one with cross
> platform ability then java, although java is more difficult than
> python(and i think perl to, but never used perl so dont really know).
> i would think the time taken to learn java & create the app & the
> GUI(you need to create the GUI in code, there is no java gui builder
> available as far as i know)
> would be far longer than that to brush up on perl or learn python, use
> glade to create the GUI and then add the code for your finnished app.

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