[plug] Writing a language?

[Derek Fountain]

On Monday 16 June 2003 11:09, John Usher (Maptek) wrote:
> Depending on exactly what you are going to use the language in, you
> might just want to consider embedding perl. Its *relatively* simple
> (compared to writing your own language), and gives you the power of
> perl!

Tcl is much better suited to the task than Perl. Writing new Tcl commands in C 
is a piece of cake because the language was designed to be extended.

You can either embed Tcl into your existing code ("script-enabling" your 
application) or embed you own code into Tcl, giving the language your own 
custom commands. Either way is much easier than creating a modified Perl, or 
writing your own language from scratch.

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