Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Scheme as an extension language and call/cc Message-ID: <.QE5TS9@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 23 Aug 90 22:00:29 GMT References: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: comp Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article vladimir@prosper.Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir G. Ivanovic) writes: > Tcl is an interpreter for a tool command language. ... > My sense is that the ideas that Tcl uses are worthy of serious consideration > as a better paradigm of an extension/command language compared to Scheme. It's easier on the user, but because it requires you to continually copy and re-parse strings performance is a problem. It's fast enough to manage keystrokes, but a stream of MIDI data can't be piped through it if you want to keep up. TCL is sort of a cross between Lisp and such string-oriented interpreted languages as "awk". I use it in my UNIX directory browser program, "browse". -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com