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Perl Carbon/Cocoa Bindings on Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the camels-like-apples dept.

gigawattwarlock asks: "As an almost new Mac OS X user (I've been adminning my wife's Mac for a while now), I am used to writing Perl scripts for her Mac, which work just fine. Simply put, I have become spoiled with the GTk bindings for Perl on Linux. I love being able to use and abuse a robust GUI, quickly and easily. And to make matters worse, I find the Aqua interface near addictive ... enough so that the idea of installing another desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, et. al) just seems a little silly, and a bit of overkill, to me. Does anyone know if there are any perl bindings in the works for Mac OS X or maybe even an already existent alternative graphical library or interface within Mac OS X?"

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  1. Re:Ask Pudge! by Mikey-San · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And if all you're doing is starting an application, it gets easier:

    tell application "ICQ 3.0X (sick, man. sick.)" to activate
    tell application "AOL Instant Messenger sucks ass, try Adium" to activate
    tell application "Yahoo! Messenger (how many friggin chat apps do you NEED?)" to activate
    tell application "Microsoft Outlook (what, you were expecting a Eudora joke?" to activate

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    Mikey-San
    Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
  2. Re:Use Ruby with RubyCocoa by foobar104 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Has it ever occured to you that when someone asks for an apple they want an apple and not your opinion of oranges?

    Dude, Ask Slashdot (which is what this is, no matter how it was filed) isn't supposed to be a search engine. If all the poor guy wanted was a list of Perl/Cocoa bindings, he could have used Google.

    The great thing about Ask Slashdot is that you get opinions, editorials, and suggestions for alternatives.

    And then, of course, you get guys like yourself who moderate suggestions off-topic, or who post vulgar messages complaining of same.

    :sigh: Just relax a little, and let the free flow of ideas wash over you.

  3. Re:Use Ruby with RubyCocoa by rjamestaylor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I didn't moderate. I commented. Big difference. And I signed it.

    If *you* weren't so uptight you'd have thought the analogy somewhat funny.

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello
  4. Re:Use Ruby with RubyCocoa by foobar104 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    If *you* weren't so uptight you'd have thought the analogy somewhat funny.

    Um... except it wasn't. It's only funny if it's both witty and apt. Yours was only witty in the sense that you used the word "masturbation." And, as I pointed out, it wasn't apt at all.

    You missed the mark, friend.