Perlbox: A Unix Desktop Written in Perl

cascadefx writes "It appears that this programmer has created an Open Sourced Unix Desktop, PerlBox, written in Perl and Tk. I found this posted in response to an article on Perl Monks asking if Perl was obsessed with CGI?. Apparently not. Check it out, it looks pretty interesting." I wonder how fast it runs?

Comments

funding

[psyclone]

I think it's cool that this group received part of a research grant to fund this project. An important thing to note is that software experiments like this are a science in a way -- they're looking at a problem and trying to solve it in a new way, and publishing their results.

more open source projects could easily benefit from a funding model like this. There seems to be research money floating around universities (mine included) that could easily go to open source projects; it just may not be the project you want to work on, but hey, getting paid isn't so bad.

Also of note..

[zapfie]

If you like stuff like PerlBox, you might also want to check out ROX-filer while you're at it. ROX-Filer an excellent file manager written in Python, and also offers a session manager, a wallpaper utility, a clock, etc, all written in Python. I'd recommend checking both PerlBox and ROX-Filer out.

Re:I wish...

[FortKnox]

Perl is spelled P-e-r-l not P-E-R-L, this is the first sign you don't know what you are talking about.

I simply copied the parent post's capitalization (not spelling). I've coded large products in both Perl and Java.
BTW - its attitudes like this that make non-technical people afraid to learn technical areas. You sound like a 1337 d00d in #linux-newbies that shouts "RTMFM!" at every question. I don't mind if you argue, but insulting is a sign of elitism, which I didn't think existed in UIDs as low as yours.

Perl is no more or less hard to understand or maintain than any other language if you code correctly. Sure I can make Perl look like line noise, but I can also make it easy to read and maintain.

I wasn't refering to the language itself (or how clean the code is) but the OO of Java vs. the scripting of Perl. Sure, there is OO in perl, but its slapped on and unelegant.

Its arguable, but most coders I know would find a well written, large scale, high level OO application easier to maintain and update than a large scale, powerful scripted application.