From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKxsU-0007n1-VU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:09:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E032E028D; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.allt1.se (mail.allt1.se [85.8.30.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C48BE028D for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.allt1.se (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 470033D12F; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:07:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (71.57.227.87.static.th.siw.siwnet.net [87.227.57.71]) by mail.allt1.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611843D122 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:07:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A47A3BB.3060005@coolmail.se> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:09:15 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly) References: <5bdc1c8b0906280934j524686d7ic25fb0ce352aacec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906280934j524686d7ic25fb0ce352aacec@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d0433293-fa2b-4f8a-bdd2-a8a60f8fe17e X-Archives-Hash: 1a79a37a2c76e19ce85f3fb7933840bd Mark Knecht wrote: > These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have > data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make > decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting > Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to do. > The math's not difficult, but I need to look at various ranges, > manage, sort and extract data from arrays, and amd then create charts. > This is getting pretty difficult in Excel these days so I've started > to wonder about writing a simple app to do what I need to do. It's not > generally difficult stuff but it requires (or I prefer) a lot of small > charts. I'm vaguely familiar with C & Pascal, but haven't programmed > in years. I don't know C++ at all. I was trained as an EE. Have you looked at using Octave? It's a Matlab clone (and thus very C-like), can output to Gnuplot and you can also create filters of your own and output to Graphviz. The language R can perhaps also be of use, depending on what you wish to accomplish... > So the main question is what sort of language (and possibly > programming environment) should a complete novice look at to get his > feet wet with GUI programming. I'd like something fairly light - > performance probably won't be a huge problem - that I could run under > Cygwin or maybe compile to run native in Windows should that ever > become useful. For now it's probably a relatively simple Linux app > that I'd likely run once a week on Saturday morning on 15 to 20 > databases I collect on Friday night. Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize... Best regards Peter K