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
>I will make the editor (which will be the whole forth) smart-- it will be
>able to 1) built-in buttons (just type the text that will appear on the
>button, accept default placement) and 2) externally designed buttons and
>layouts.  I'm not sure how I will implement the last-- if someone would
>write a layout tool that outputs in simple form, I could use that.

You mean you want to be able to code the UI objects directly in Forth and
handle building/using/etc. them at runtime?  Depending on what your
planning on doing this could be a very ambitious project. :-)


Re: Telescript
>It's an interpreted language that is designed to be very safe.  Because of
>this, you can send these programs over a net and the computer at the other
>side can run them without worrying about safety.

Yeah, I've heard those promises about the safety of the Telescript language
and frankly I doubt them.  At this point I'm much more interested in what
the language allows one to do.  BTW, if you're interested in safety issues,
you might want to look into 'safe-tcl'.  Right now it's being discussed as
'safe' version of the Tcl language.

John