Subj : V7 nodelist editor
To : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Tue Dec 09 2003 02:39 pm
Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''V7 nodelist editor'':
GK>>> As much as I can remember the interface and the handling of colours
GK>>> on the screen I'm pretty sure it is Pascal. However, fpk does a
GK>>> quite decent job on such things.
BS>> This way, my Pascal is pretty rusty, so I would even not think of
BS>> porting it, if I did get the source.
GK> I think it won't be too hard, as there isn't much happening on the
GK> screen. No access to mouse, no graphics and so on. "Normal" code,
GK> file ops and so on are relatively good supported by fpk.
That's right.. But do anyone have contact with the author?
GK>>> On the other hand, reinventing the
GK>>> wheel gives you the opportunity to choose a language that is more
GK>>> widespread nowadays.
BS>> Indeed, C/C++ might be a good choice.. C++ is just annoying me. :-)
GK> Nodelist access calls for a scripting langugage nowadays (imho of
GK> course :-). Ruby, Perl, Python or something like this...
I really don't like scripting for those perpuses, a program written in C might
be more effective in that way.
Bo
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