From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 14:48:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA09064 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:48:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.fdt.net (root@yoda.fdt.net [205.229.48.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09053 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn040-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.41]) by yoda.fdt.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA07992; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:48:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Frank X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Michael Smith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Book recommendations In-Reply-To: <199603140606.QAA07326@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...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