[plt-scheme] Announce: mzgtk2 release 2 version 2.6.10.002

Just to make sure that it dosn't sound like i'm trashing Mred, I'll let
everyone know that I'm currently using Mred.

Corey

On 1/6/07, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> As I said, I want both and I am grateful for the effort. I do insist
> that MrEd isn't undersold. It's much much more than people say it is.
> -- Matthias
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Ray Racine wrote:
>
> > To point out an analogy to the Java world:
> >
> >       -Sun Swing: Low level drawing runtime upon which a tightly meshed,
> > fully Java-ish widget set was built.  Lots of advantages, cons: not
> > native look & feel, slow...
> >
> >       -IBM/Eclipse SWT: Full top to bottom Peer bindings to the
> contextual,
> > to the running app, native widget set, pros: fast, familiar and snappy
> > L&F, cons: requires explicit memory management etc, loss of
> > smoothness.
> >
> > Both continue to do well and many Java people bounce from one to the
> > other as to what best fits the bill.
> >
> > The analogy is not equivalence but interesting similarity to me
> > nonetheless.
> >
> > That debate, btw, has been running in Java-land for - years.  And it
> > ain't over yet.  Depending on the success of the the mzgtk2 bindings I
> > could see this topic breaking out on this list for years to come 2-3
> > times a year.  Mark your calendars now.
> >
> > I will say, as someone, who is coming back to Scheme (because it _is_
> > constantly getting better and better and better) from a 2-3 year
> > wander
> > in the desert of PL, as a pretty hardcore Linux guy, who sees GTK all
> > the live-long-day, and who as I type is rotating Gnome desktops as
> > facets on a 3-D polygon cube (OpenGL-3D accelerated), those
> > screenshots
> > that Hans posted ... well, visual Viagra, practically passed out and
> > dropped my new laptop from the nose dive in blood pressure.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:48 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> >> Matthew has tightly integrated the executable and the GUI system...
> >
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