GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-08, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 08.06.2010 20:15, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> On 2010-06-08, Martin v. Loewis<martin at v.loewis.de>  wrote:
>>>> TkInter ->  Tcl ->  Tk ->  Xlib
>>>>
>>>> Is the Tcl intepreter really need to use this GUI? Why not:
>>>>
>>>> (Pyton ->) Tkinter-API ->  Xlib ?
>>>
>>> Even if this was possible (which it is not)
>>
>> Why is it not possible?  It seems to have been done for other
>> languages.
>
> So you don't know for sure? Which implementation specifically
> do you think of?

There was a Scheme implementation called STk that didn't use Tcl.
There was also a Perl implementation that didn't use Tcl.

-- 
Grant