[plug] Writing a language?

[John Usher (Maptek)]

Sorry. Not getting into any religious wars here.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Fountain [mailto:derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, 16 June 2003 3:31 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Writing a language?


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.

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE

..when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched
gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003