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Old January 10th, 2006, 12:06 PM
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Default Re: Poll: what OS/platforms (besides Win32) for Do

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djo said:My favorite is Python. Others include Java, REALBasic, and C#/Mono. With the cygwin Unix environment for Windows, one can add all the other usual favorites: Perl, Ruby, shell scripts, Tcl, PHP, and who knows how many others.
Not all those are "scripting" per se, but all could be used for writing and running small programs of this kind on all 3 platforms.
You may want to add XBasic to the list (at least for Linux and Windows, dunno if there's a Mac version)

And what do you need cygwin for? There are "native" version available for Windows.

And with Tcl/Tk you needn't worry about the GUI .. works the same on all OS. You can even wrap the app into an .exe, even cross-platform. (At least, that's what I read from the freewrap how-to. Haven't tried it, though. Might turn out trickier as advertised, as usual )
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