Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!sicsun!sic!brossard From: brossard@sic.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Merged Tcl and Perl? Message-ID: <1991Apr6.143307@sic.epfl.ch> Date: 6 Apr 91 12:33:07 GMT References: <21782@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch Reply-To: brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 27 In article , barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: | In article <21782@shlump.nac.dec.com> evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans) writes: | If so, have you found yourself thinking the same thoughts as I? My principal | >question though is (Larry) Are you fimiliar with Tcl and does it seem reasonable | >to merge the two packages in some form? | | How about merging perl, Tcl, and Xtk? | | Then we can write X Window programs in Perl! | And since Tcl can communicate with other programs that also use Tcl, we | can have pwm (Perl window manager)! | | (Half :-) No :-) here, that is exactly what I need and I think the next direction for Perl. After all, Larry most be getting bored with regular expressions and must be ready for a new challenge! Right now, I'm using devGuide to generate C code for the user interface (using xview) and the C code then calls perl scripts to deal with the file system. How much better if I could call a toolkit directly from Perl! -- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch