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Brent Simmons’ Macintosh scripting weblog.
Friday, October 26, 2001
IBM: Preview of the [anygui] project. “A very interesting project in the Python world has entered early development. The [anygui] project is intended as a wrapper API for a large number of underlying graphic toolkits. Once fully developed, a Python programmer will be able to call a common [anygui] function -- for example, to create a window -- then have the ‘best available’ toolkit do the work. On Windows, the Win32 API might be used (or wxWindows); on MacOS, native calls; on BeOS, Bethon; on Linux, TKinter or GTK.” (Via NewsForge.)
10:24:23 PM
Network Test Automation with with Mac OS X and Tcl. “If you haven’t been introduced already, the Tool Command Language, Tcl, is a secret weapon used by large network hardware corporations to test their devices.”
10:18:41 PM
Not scripting-related, but worth a laugh: Apple did not release a pda named iWalk on the 23rd, but here are the specs and a picture of it anyway.
10:44:48 AM
frontierMath 1.1b2, an extension that adds math functions to Frontier, has been Carbonized to work with OS X.
9:39:39 AM
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