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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. "Ask Slashdot" in disguise--use question mark! by Arrgh · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hey, for those Ask Slashdot-style question stories in non-AS categories, could you guys please try to remember to put a question mark in the title?

    An announcement of a Perl binding for Cocoa is somewhat interesting to me, but in general AS's aren't.

  2. Use Ruby with RubyCocoa by NikWest · · Score: 0, Troll
    not exactly what you have asked for, but as I like ruby a lot better than perl you might want to give it a try.
    Ruby is much more object oriented and fits perfectly to Cocoa/ObjC.

    http://www.ruby-lang.org

    and for the Cocoa bindings:

    http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/

    Greetings NikWest