30.10. Further Exploration

With just a few clicks of the mouse and a little organization we have laid out an extensible framework for a new application. We even used Perl’s OO features to provide the framework for clean GUI development. Perl is already known as a rapid development language; combining it with a tool like Glade enables lightning-fast GUI application development.

As is often mentioned on the perl5-porters mailing list, most every problem domain Perl is brought into quickly becomes a Simple Matter of Programming (SMOP). GUI development is no different, and Glade fulfills the exciting potential of bringing Perl and SMOP to the desktop.