Language question

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 01:38 PM, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
>> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Harris [sandyinchina at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 30 October 2010 04:13
>
>> Not to start a religious war, but I need advice on which
>> language to use for an application.
>
>> The app is language learning software. It needs to
>> read text files, do a bit of parsing, present stuff on
>> the screen, get user input&  give feedback. Nothing
>> very complex, just a general-purpose interactive
>> program.
>
>> There are some complications: The program is
>> experimental and is likely to be revised a fair bit.
>> Also, it needs to run on at least Linux (development
>> &  some students) and Windows (many students),
> i>deally on Mac as well.
>
>> My first thought is TCL, which I understand was
>> designed for this sort of thing. Is that the right
>> choice? What other possibilities are there?
> <snip>
>
> Have a look at Python.  With your skills, he learning curve will be shallow; it does
> everything you want, and it's multi-platform.
>

Even perl can fit in...it has gtk or qt bindings too.

In the end, tcl/tk is probably the most self contained. python,perl,C 
will all require that you learn a gui toolkit. qt4 for C will work 
everywhere.