'''Holger Jakobs''' - mailto:holger@jakobs.com, see also http://www.jakobs.com ---- I live in Bergisch Gladbach http://www.bergischgladbach.de close to Köln http://www.koeln.de in Germany teaching several IT related subjects at Bildungszentrum für informationsverarbeitende Berufe http://www.bg.bib.de, an IT-related vocational training college (Berufskolleg für Angewandte Informatik). I'm into * Tcl/Tk -- not into Perl * LaTeX -- not into Word * PostgreSQL -- not into MySQL * Linux -- not into Windows because I prefer the '''better solutions'''. Most of my programming I do with Tcl/Tk, because I believe it is the easiest way to get things done. What I would like to have in Tcl/Tk is better support for sorting Unicode according to language-dependent rules instead of following the numerical order of the glyphs. see [lsort] and http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ ---- Of course I have tried lots of programming languages: * Basic (Wang, Commodore, Simon's Basic) * FORTRAN - had to! * COBOL - hat to, luckily only a little! * Pascal (Turbo, Professional) * Modula-2 (JPI) - was my favourite for years! Took me some time to equip it with the 'widgets' (in text mode, of course) I needed. Was not very useful with Windows, only DOS. * C - took me quite some time to get used to what it all lacks. As a Modula-2-Programmer you are used to a more structured work. It's a pity that Modula-2 lost and C won. * C++ - at least some good ideas of Modula-2 came back here. Still too complicated building cross-platform GUIs. Maybe I'll try wxwindows one day. * Realizer - was once a competitor of MS Visual Basic by Computer Associates. Not very good. * Tcl/Tk - the best and most complete kit of useful things I ever discovered * Java - only little insight, is just too complicated, too deeply nested object hierarchy * JavaScripts - only for very little programming of Web pages * PHP - only for two little jobs with MySQL (shudder!!) where nothing else was available ---- [Category Person]