Christopher Hylands (SeeMySignature@for.my.email.address) wrote:
: In article <E83MAz.IA1@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
papresco@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
: Sun is pushing Java more than ever. The reason for their interest
: in TCL seems to be this dichtomy between systems programming
: languages and scripting languages.
: Seems to me that the combination of Java and Tcl is _very_ powerful.
: My point is that you have your lunch and eat the other guy's too :-)
:
: It seem like most Java GUIs are ugly as sin (misaligned entry boxes of
: different lengths etc.). Tk GUIs are easy to tune because you can
: keep evaluating a proc until it looks right. With Java, you usually
: have to recompile and restart. (SpecJava might help here, I don't know)
Getting bored by the constant flamming? How about a little Jacl -- a
Tcl interpreter written in Java. Jacl is a perfect marriage between
Java and Tcl. When it's finished, it will have the ability to script
any arbitrary Java object using Tcl. See
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/ioi/Jacl
Jacl's admittedly lame motto is "Doodle once, script anywhere".
Comments? Feature requests? Please send mail to
ioi@cs.cornell.edu
-- Ioi Lam
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