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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) 
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > That's nothing but opinion and doesn't drive the argument.  See: I
> > think Tcl/Tk looks really nice.  And what's so ugly about gray?  Hey,
> > some of my carpet is gray and my hair'll turn gray some day, too!
> 
> FWIW, my opinion of Tk (in pretty much all its various versions in
> whatever colors) is that it's the finest GUI development environment
> currently available for $0, period.
> 
> Yes, there are aspects of its which are unwieldy and annoying (I don't
> care for the placement management stuff *at all*, to be honest) but
> the sheer bredth of functionality can't really be beat.  The canvas
> object is an amazing little hack just in and of itself, and it makes
> for very arbitrarily complex controls when you need them - very cute,
> and something even the big commercial apps don't provide (or do very
> badly).
> 
> Unless something really awesome comes over the horizon, perhaps with

python/tkinter