Complicating the issue was the challenge of finding money to improve the flight design ... that using C++ or Java would have added to the problem, not the solution," Friedrich maintains. Python ...

The beauty of pyGTK and Glade is they have opened up cross-platform, professional-quality GUI development to those of us who'd rather be doing other things but who still need a GUI on top of it all.

This is probably because most GUI applications on Unix-based systems have not traditionally followed consistent design guidelines ... and complex shell scripting using shell and Perl, while ...