Re: Forth, TCL, Telescript

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From: Billy Tanksley <tanksley@fallbrook.csusm.edu>
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Subject: Re: Forth, TCL, Telescript
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On Sun, 30 Jan 1994, John D. Mitchell wrote:

> Re: Forth
> 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. :-)

No.  I want to permit the programmer to either use my predefined
buttons/menus/structure, or let them 'link' in thier own structure as
designed on an external utility.  Perhaps someday I'll get around to
writing my own util to do that, or maybe someone will write a freeware I
can bundle with it... who knows?
 
> 
> Re: Telescript
> 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.

Correct.  Anything they can make, someone can unmake.  What *is* this Tcl
anyway?
 
> John

-Billy
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