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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:47:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Frank <frankd@yoda.fdt.net>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Book recommendations
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960314173833.182B-100000@Kryten.nina.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603140606.QAA07326@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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> ...and in particular the TclX dialect.  This gives you easy GUI programming,
> networking and just about everything (apart from fast math 8) that you could
> possibly want in a language.  Being interpreted, it's also nice and easy
> to work with.

Does being an interpreted language mean slow as molasses? If so, is there 
another relatively easy to learn alternative for programming in X without 
a speed hit? Is it feasible to program for X using straight C? I take it 
as a given that C is the way to go for text based programs. True?

Thanks for taking the time to answer this,

Frank Seltzer



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