Preface
Tcl/Tk: GUI Programming in a Gooey World
Alan Watts, the Episcopal priest who popularized Buddhist thought in 1960s California, once wrote that philosophical thinkers can be divided into two basic types, which he called “prickly” and “gooey.” The prickly people, by his definition, “are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things. They prefer particles to waves, and discontinuity to continuity. The gooey people are tender-minded romanticists who love wide generalizations and grand syntheses. … Waves suit them much better than particles as the ultimate constituents of matter, and discontinuities jar their teeth like a compressed-air drill.”1
Watts chose the terms prickly and gooey carefully, ...
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