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From: rlr@stcvax.STORTEK.COM (Roger Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Tcl - Tool command language
Summary: UNIX compatability
Message-ID: <363@stcvax.STORTEK.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:32:13 GMT
References: <5213@sugar.hackercorp.com> <132344@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <132344@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 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.
> 
> ... 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.

Dr. Ousterhout presented a paper on TCL at the Winter '90 USENIX.  It
provides a good technical overview of the functionality and CPU timings
for various operations (on a uVAX, I believe).  (I don't recall if the
IPC semantics were fully described in the paper.)

I haven't seen ARexx, so I can't really perform a comparision.  The
main thing that made TCL interesting in a "what does it buy us" sense
was the excitment it generated amongst the attendees.  Everyone wanted
a copy.  If this is the case, we may be seeing packages where the
interface language and the IPC facilities are handled by TCL.  (There
is already an X-based/TCL IPC facility.)

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