New/old programming language making a splash

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Hiscocks wrote:

> There are some interesting case-histories documented on the Scriptics
> website which show the efficiencies to be gained by using Tcl/Tk to
> prototype a program before coding it in C, or to replace a C program.
>
> The original intent of Tcl was as a glue language between applications and
> routines written in C, but it's turned out to be a useful language in its
> own right.

I use tcl/tk for small gui programs to interface to hardware. It is very 
easy to write a functional gui in 200 lines of code or less (someties 20 
lines are enough). One must remember that entire software suites (like 
vtcl - a rad gui builder) are written entirely in tcl. So it is a 
powerful language. Python is also on my 'to be done list'. For now, both 
tcl and python are installed 'by default' with base distributions (not 
only on linux, but also *bsd etc).

Peter

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