Help Required for Choosing Programming Language

[sturlamolden]

On Feb 24, 7:04 pm, Thomas Bartkus <thomasbart... at comcast.net> wrote:

> Most user apps. require 95% of coding effort to provide a usable user
> interface and 5% effort on the algorithmic meat.  The "afterwards" you
> allude to. So why do we still endure so much programming effort on the
> unimportant part?

> Why should a programmer waste even so much as 10% of his effort to throw
> together a standard interface with ordinary textboxes, labels, and option
> buttons?  Over and over again?

That is why at least two modern GUI toolkits (Microsoft's 'avalon' and
GTK with GLADE) export the GUI as an XML-resource from a graphical GUI
designer. It then takes only a line of code to import the GUI and
another to register the event handlers.