1. I think buttons with relief are easier to use, but other than that I am always surprised at how worked up people get about theming (but then I prefer a terminal based emacs...).
2. Tcl/Tk has some GREAT ideas that are not implemented anywhere else: the built-in event handler, trivial to write callbacks, and the everything is a string philosophy (which is strangely like a self-evaling lisp approach)
3. Tcl/Tk had some really bad luck. This weekend at opensqlcamp, someone asked Selena Deckleman why PostgreSQL has not had a tenth the market share as MySQL. She said (paraphrasing): in 1999 a lot of the core devs thought the internet was just a fad -- whoops... Same mistakes maybe happened with Tcl/Tk -- it was there just a little too early.
4. Tcl/Tk demands C to be a really full platform, and C is scary to a lot of the new breed of scripters.
1. I think buttons with relief are easier to use, but other than that I am always surprised at how worked up people get about theming (but then I prefer a terminal based emacs...).
2. Tcl/Tk has some GREAT ideas that are not implemented anywhere else: the built-in event handler, trivial to write callbacks, and the everything is a string philosophy (which is strangely like a self-evaling lisp approach)
3. Tcl/Tk had some really bad luck. This weekend at opensqlcamp, someone asked Selena Deckleman why PostgreSQL has not had a tenth the market share as MySQL. She said (paraphrasing): in 1999 a lot of the core devs thought the internet was just a fad -- whoops... Same mistakes maybe happened with Tcl/Tk -- it was there just a little too early.
4. Tcl/Tk demands C to be a really full platform, and C is scary to a lot of the new breed of scripters.