Re: Application development (entirely) in C

> I agree. What we really need is something like a 4th generation
 language
 > as a front end to some kind of application builder. I have a background
 > in quantum chemistry but I have worked for the last 4 years with
 applications
 > in the visualization of and calculations on protein structure so I realize
 > that the needs for these both fields are different. I would like to see a
 > system which would combine for example Matlab, MacSyma and the knowledge
 > in some of the modeling packages. This system could (perhaps) be most
 efficiently
 > used in the modeling area.
 >
     I believe there is a piece of software under developement here at UNM
 at least tries to be what you are looking for.  I have had no expierience
 with it, but I have heard that it is gaining quite a bit of attention in
 the computer science field.  I will include one of their canned ad blurbs
 that is available at the ftp site pprg.eece.unm.edu ( anonymous of course).
 		What is Khoros 1.0 (Patch 2)?
 Khoros is an integrated software development environ-
 ment for information processing and visualization, based on
 X11R4.  Khoros components include a visual programming
 language, code generators for extending the visual language
 and adding new application packages to the system, an
 interactive user interface editor, interactive image display
 programs, surface visualization, an extensive library of image
 processing, numerical analysis and signal processing routines,
 and 2D/3D plotting packages.  X applications built using the Khoros
 User Interface Libraries have built in journal/playback and groupware
 capabilities.
 If you have questions, comments or problems of a general nature,
 mail the Khoros mailing list, khoros |-at-| chama.eece.unm.edu.  To subscribe
 to the mailing list, mail to khoros-request |-at-| chama..eece.unm.edu.
 End blurb.
 I hope this helps it seems to fill many of the requirments that you and
 several others have asked for...
 just my $.02 worth.
 chris
 chisolm |-at-| hydra.unm.edu