From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 19:04:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23361 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns3.noc.netcom.net (ns3.noc.netcom.net [204.31.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23327 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [206.215.142.10]) by ns3.noc.netcom.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA06515; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:03:30 -0800 Received: from athena.tera.com by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0-206) id AA16949; Thu, 14 Mar 96 19:02:51 PST From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <9603150302.AA16949@tera.com> Subject: Re: Book recommendations To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:03:02 -0800 (PST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Frank at "Mar 14, 96 05:47:37 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Frank: > > ...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? > I have a good text that came with a disk full of X sample code. Given the examples plus the explaination of the text it is fairly simple to get into X-Window programming in C. The text is _Xlib by Example_ by M. Ali and C. Yang. gary kline >