[wplug] OT - Programming Languages

[hobbit at euthanized.org]

As to refreshing:

Not if you do it web-based and have your client make RPC calls to a set of
(PHP/Perl/Python/whatever) functions through JavaScript/DOM scripting.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <vze2f6h6 at verizon.net>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: [wplug] OT - Programming Languages


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
> > Brian Medley
> >
> > I'd try perl first (but that's only because I know and like perl :).
You
> > could write the hardware code as a C module and load using perl or
> > somesuch.  Perl has great support for talking to databases.  For the
gui,
> > you could try perl for gtk, gtk2, wxperl, or perlqt.  You would also
have
> > the wonders of CPAN at your disposal.
> >
> > Another option is python.  I believe it has a similar feature set to
what
> > perl has to offer.  They both have their strength and weaknesses, but I
> > can't really comment much on python b/c I have never programmed w/ it.
> >
>
> But if I do the GUI in perl for gtk, gtk2, wxperl, or perlqt then I would
> have to do a whole different GUI for the Windows platform, right?  I
really
> don't want to write the GUI twice.  I was thinking about making it
> web-based, and then the client side doesn't matter.  The only problem is
> that the browser would have to refresh at least every minute to show the
> updated time for all the tanning beds.
>
> Chris
>
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