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I have a small side project I want to write and have yet to decide on a language. Ultimately, I want a way to access and/or modify the clipboard in a platform-independent way.

I'd like to learn a new language to do this, preferably something that:

  1. I'll learn a lot from.
  2. Will look good on my resume.

...and I'm leaning towards a functional language of some kind (Lisp would be ideal). That said, I might also want to experiment with interfacing C with other languages, so a C library would also be acceptable. Are there any libraries out there that would do what I'm looking for in a language that meets the above criteria?

Jason Baker
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    related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1800971/linux-clipboard-read-write-in-c Just on Linux this proves to be challenging... – jldupont Dec 07 '09 at 02:05

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A crossplatform library (like thewxWidgets framework, which would let you implement in C++, Python, Ruby, and several more) would give you a way to implement this is a cross-platform manner...

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One approach to this is to use Java's clipboard class. This gives me a pretty wide selection of languages to choose from.

Jason Baker
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