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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Tcl - Tool command language
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Date: 28 Feb 90 21:46:05 GMT
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In article <5213@sugar.hackercorp.com> (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>The following text was extracted from documentation that came with
>the release of Tool command language I indirectly acquired from its 
>author, Dr. John Ousterhout of the University of California at Berkeley.

Ok Karl, sounds like Dr. Ousterhout has re-invented REXX. Possibly not
a bad thing, but in the wish list you want an "ARexx interface" so I'm
confused somewhere. Can you compare and contrast the REXX and TCL 
languages, their semantics, and the ease of extending/using them in 
one's applications? Since ARexx will be included in 1.4 (according to
published accounts in various magazines and on BIX) how does TCL help
the Amiga (rather than fragment what support is already building for
ARexx) ? Has Dr. Ousterhout published anything on TCL yet ? If so where ?
Lots-o-questions.


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