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You'll never BELIEVE what Jay Ashworth said here...:
> 
> Well, Mark, Brian and I are in our late 30s to mid 40s, but we're not writing
> a lot of code either...

40 as of March 13th.  And no, I'm not writing a lot of fP code.  No more
than is necessary to integrate fP to the web.  I have a framework for that,
but it still requires individualised development that can't be avoided.

I keep the fP side to a minimum.  I'm capable, I just loathe the
environment and its limitations, to be honest.  I would honestly rather
code an application from the ground up in Perl/Curses.pm/DBI/DBD::mysql
than use filePro, if I were to do something entirely from scratch in a
character-based mode.  The language alone offers me more flexibility, and
outweighs the complexity of dealing directly with Curses--for which I've
got a library of routines for common tasks -anyway-.  Switching to GUI?
Rip out Curses, swap in Perl/Tk Bit more complex, cos then you're dealing
with an OO event loop, so the flow is different; but if you keep -most-
of the guts in subroutines, you can just use the same routines as event
handlers, instead of as directly called subroutines.

If I wanted to go "native look & feel", okay, I would learn wxWidgets for
Perl.  I've never been hung up on native look & feel, though.  GUI is GUI,
as long as it's -REAL- GUI.  pTk isn't good for, say, themes or skinning,
but it's still quite a real GUI.

mark->
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