Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!umich!caen.engin.umich.edu!chrisl From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Tcl - Tool command language Message-ID: <48f6cbee.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu> Date: 2 Mar 90 05:00:00 GMT References: <5213@sugar.hackercorp.com> <5231@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 33 In article <5231@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >> Basically, I see it as a parser >> that programs can "plug-and-chug" to get a script language, a parser, >> and a gateway to AREXX. If I can make it a .library, it would make >> adding an internal scripting language w/AREXX port easier for developers. > >Basically, that fits in well with our view. The big problem I see with >REXX is that it needs each application to implement their own scripting >language anyway, which is an uncool duplication of effort. This fills >that gap nicely. >-- > _--_|\ Peter da Silva . I'm not sure what that means. True, with ARexx the developer needs to write code to handle all the commands the application can receive from an ARexx script/program, but this hardly the same as writing an entire scripting language, is it? How will Tcl change this...won't one still need to write the code to handle any commands it can receive? (True, you won't need to worry about receiving and parsing RexxMsgs, but once you have the code to do this, it is fairly easy to drop into an application.) I'm not try to be confrontational...just trying to understand why Tcl has such an advantage over ARexx, if it does. -Chris ----- Chris Lang University of Michigan, College of Engineering home: 4622 Bursley work: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Ann Arbor, MI 48109 900 Victors Way, Suite 226 (313) 763-1832 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (313) 995-0300 "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson