03-31-2013, 07:34 PM
puzzledpaul.... I don't know the first thing about Erlang nor do I have enough time to learn another language. I'm already somewhat proficient in Ruby and AutoLisp. Both of which have no ability to display graphical information. Hence I deal with the same problems when I design a dialog box in Ruby based API ....its words only. 
I was always amazed how structurally suited Lisp was for math, it would take 4 times as much code to write the same code using Ruby.
However there is a movement in programming that now recognizes these graphical shortcomings, with the addition of Java and Web Dialogs. With this additions these older languages can be given new life. Unfortunately this means the programmer ONLY has to go and learn 2 more languages, but that's a big investment in time. Particularly with the emergence of Python that has now become the new standard API interface in such programs as Houdini and Maya.
Unfortunately there is no other easy solution when the only option is....words!
I was always amazed how structurally suited Lisp was for math, it would take 4 times as much code to write the same code using Ruby.
However there is a movement in programming that now recognizes these graphical shortcomings, with the addition of Java and Web Dialogs. With this additions these older languages can be given new life. Unfortunately this means the programmer ONLY has to go and learn 2 more languages, but that's a big investment in time. Particularly with the emergence of Python that has now become the new standard API interface in such programs as Houdini and Maya.
Unfortunately there is no other easy solution when the only option is....words!