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: Tcl
>You said Tcl would control tools.  Do you mean it will do that without the
>tools' knowledge?

I guess I wasn't clear enough about what Tcl is.  Basically, it's just
another simple language interpreted language.  The goal was to have a
(somewhat) standard language that developers would use in creating their
(extensible) tools (e.g., a debugger's command language (like Swat :-), a
file editor's extension/macro language, etc.).  This was so that users
wouldn't have to learn a new, custom language for each tool that they use.
Anyway, rather than suck up more bandwidth on this, let me just direct you
to the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup for more information (or you can just pick
up the latest distribution of Tcl from sprite.berkeley.edu).

John