Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Mel]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:24:04 -0800, rantingrick wrote:
> 
>> Also one could argue that C and Python are very similar.
> 
> One could also argue that black is white, that diamond is softer than
> chalk, and that bananas are a type of spaceship. Doesn't make it so.
> 
> How to add two numbers in C:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>    int a, b;
>    scanf("%d%d", &a, &b);
>    printf("%d\n", a + b);
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> And in Python:
> 
> a, b = input().split()  # use raw_input in Python 2
> print(int(a) + int(b))
> 
> 
> And in Tcl:
> 
> scan [gets stdin] "%d %d" x y
> puts [expr {$x + $y}]
> 
> 
> None of the three are exactly clones of each other, but it seems to me
> that Tcl and Python are quite close in spirit, if not syntax.

They both have the interpreter spirit.  Very different under the hood; Tcl 
is the LISP of strings.  They could have called it STRP.

	Mel.