[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:32 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   Of course not...but I wasn't interested in "picking up" another
>> language.  And does Python have the cross-platform GUI capabilities of
>> Java, and if so, does it do them as well as Java does?
>
> I personally rather like wxWindows.  For one thing, it looks correct on
> each platform, unlike swing.

   I think I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is.  What is it?

> But the point wasn't that you should have used something other than
> java, rather that if java wasn't available, you could have found
> something else just as fast.

   Oh sure, maybe...but not definitely.  And definitely not something 
that both Sridhar and I already knew (though much more so Sridhar than 
I).

       -Dave

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