New/old programming language making a splash
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 24 21:13:14 UTC 2005
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > The same description applies to Tcl/Tk... I've found Tcl/Tk very
> > useful for interaction with electronic hardware and I've heard that it's
> > used to generate scripts for test equipment for semiconductor parts.
>
> Yeah tcl/tk does work for that. And you can link it together with C
> functions that you can activate based on events from tk/tcl. I never
> did like the syntax though. Bleagh!
Python is probably the better choice if you're doing lots of programming
on the interpreted-language side. Tcl/Tk may well come out ahead if
you're just using a small interpreted program to control lots of C code.
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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