I've been a "professional" user-interface programmer for 20 years. In that time I've written a grand total of three little apps just for the fun of it. Two of them I snuck in as hidden buttons in the Mathematica About Box, because it was just too difficult to start a new application from scratch. All of them can be replicated in a few minutes using Version 6. In my experience, writing GUI (graphical user interface) applications in C or Java or Visual Basic--or whatever--is fine if you plan to spend weeks or months on a program, but prohibitively horrible if you really only have a few minutes to dedicate to the task.
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