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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