Cross platform scripting language and database

[Matthew Carpenter]

I've heard great things about the perl portability.
Java is great on all platforms with one or two exceptions, mostly when dealing with Threads.  On Unix systems Threads run a little differently than on Winders, and using the "Thread.yield()" method is recommended to allow other threads to play as well.  This is the advanced stuff like multi-threaded GUI's and such. (or the search and destroy DDOS daemons in my case :)

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:53:23 -0600
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:37:43 -0500
> Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> 
> > I need to write some simple software for organizing digital images.
> > There will be a need to automatically label the images, add comments,
> > and create a database. There needs to be a pretty GUI for the enduser.
> > 
> > This will run mainly on a windows 2000 box but I would like:
> > 1. to use something beside visual basic or other proprietary software. 
> > 2. to have a cross platform language, since I will likely be developing this on my home computer in large part, which runs lindows. 
> > 
> > So,  of the cross platform scripting languages out there, which ones
> > are good for windows 2000 and linux? Which ones are simple?
> > 
> 
> I regularly move (not port) code between Linux/Solaris/Windows NT and
> with perl, even with Perl/Tk, I have zero issues.
> 
> I also have put other peoples Java code on all those platforms with no
> problems.
> 
> And, for very simple problems that are mostly GUI issues, Tcl/Tk works
> well. I don't really like the language, but if my functionality is 80%
> GUI and 20% calculation, it's not a bad choice.
> 
> Python is probably okay too, but I've never felt the need to learn that 
> one. 8-)
> 
> You might seriously look at Tcl/Tk. It looks like your problem is
> small, and Tcl/Tk is pretty lightweight.
> 
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