On 19 Apr 2002, at 13:30, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:00:29 +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" > <sgunderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:17:35AM > > +0200, Branko Collin wrote: > > > I guess the easiest way to do that > > > would be to store the output of > > > your program as a script-fu script. > > > > Or Perl-Fu -- I'd guess most people are slightly more > > comfortable writing Perl than Scheme... Yes, but computers should be equally comfortable with either language, and: > But that would only work for a minority of GIMP users. Nowadays, for > better or worse, the majority of GIMP users seem to be Windows users > (in contrast with the developers, who are almost exclusively Linux > users or UN*X users). And getting Gimp-Perl to work under Windows is > not a trivial task (this can also be a problem on several other > non-Linux systems), so it is easier for most people to use Script-Fu > because it works "out of the box" on all systems. > > Besides, for someone who is not a programmer and does not know > anything about Perl and Scheme, I do not think that there is a big > difference in the learning curve. For somebody who has never programmed in his/her life, a logical language is probably just as easy, if not easier. How many problems in life reduce easily to a shopping list? (Please reply to the OP also, who, as he mentioned, does not subscribe to this list.) -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
