[guy at sirius-cybernetics-corporation.com: IPMT specen.]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Guy Vegoda wrote:

> Hi there all you internet people!

Hello.

> Questions:
>
> 1.  Which platforms are we looking to support?
>
>     I think that UNIX platforms would be easier for
>     development, and would cover the needs of the
>     majority of users. Also, ala Perl.
>
>     A gui provides windows users with an opportunity
>     to use the sotware too.
>
>     The same could be achieved on a win32 platform
>     under visual basic, but this would strain the GNU
>     lisence considerable, as well as denying use by
>     the UNIX users amongst us.

FWIW Perl with the TK toolkit/widget set runs under both *nix and
Windows.

I still would prefer a web based solution.

WRT people's comments about php vs. perl - php is very easy to learn, and
it's very easy with perl to write code in such a way as to render it
incomprehensible to anyone else (or to anyone who dosn't understand you
particular dialect of perl).

also doing compilcated datastructures in perl is a pain.

you can't (afaik) do non web based gui's in php tho.

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