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From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TCL or not
Keywords: TCL
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.033226.28411@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 03:32:26 GMT
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I am starting to program the Mac in Think C (thanks to all those who
made recommendations about programming environments).  I have worked
through some examples and feel fairly comfortable with the non-TCL
part of Think C.  I have looked at TCL (skimmed through the manual and
looked at the sample programs).

My impression is that TCL will be very useful in the long-run, but the
startup time will be very long.  TCL seems to be very complicated
(every subclass has to interact with so many other things).  It seems
that writing a simple program is complicated, but writing a
complicated program will eventually be easier (than without TCL).

My questions:
(1) Am I right about TCL?
(2) Is there something I can do to get moving quickly with TCL?
(3) If I start writing a simple program without TCL, will I be able to
    incorporate TCL into that program as I expand it?

Thanks for any help.

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