Re: tcl and editor

Billy Tanksley <tanksley@leucadia.csusm.edu>

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From: Billy Tanksley <tanksley@leucadia.csusm.edu>
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Subject: Re: tcl and editor 
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On Thu, 3 Feb 1994 rau@pa.dec.com wrote:

> About running TCL on the Zoomer....Have you thought about the resource 
> requirements of you project?  The space requirements of an editor, a tcl
> interpreter, a fourth interpreter, and the ascii scripts people write, will
> most likely not fit on a standard Zoomer (i.e. you'll need a mem-card).  Also,
> I'd hate to imagine the performance of a tcl interpreter!  And then I ask is
> there really a need for one?

Well, forth has a good reputation for small size, so that shouldn't be too
much of a problem.  Tcl does sound big, but perhaps you could do the
programming and debugging in PC-Geos, then dump it to the Zoomer.  You
shouldn't need both forth and Tcl, and the editor for forth will be an
integral part of the package, not an add-on external or internal.

> ...........larry
> 
-Billy
I don't work for GeoWorks, I don't speak for them, and they don't speak
for themselves.  :)