Forth, TCL, Telescript

"John D. Mitchell" <johnm@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>

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From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Forth, TCL, Telescript
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Re: Forth
	Perhaps, but coming up with a nice visual way to deal with the text
oriented language would seem to be quite difficult.  Also, Forth folks seem
hell bent on never standardizing on what the language (and it's library)
really is.  Forthers also just love to program the bare metal and seem to
have problems with giving up total control to anyone/anything else (like
the kernel).  Just my warped view of course. :-)

Re: Telescript
	Who knows?  It would seem to depend greatly on what the scope of
the capabilities of the language are.  Beats me.

Re: Tcl
	The only big problem with Tcl is that it passes nearly everything
around as (sometimes huge) strings.  It's pretty easy to end up blowing out
a 64Kb offset size that way.  This is my biggest reason for wanting a
32-bit offset version of GEOS (e.g., protected mode).

Oh well, just my ramblings,
			John