>>>>> TMA == <tma_at_nettest.dk> writes:
TMA> > My suggestion would be to look at ``slang'', which I believe
TMA> > is some sort of C-interpreter. I don't know how good it is,
TMA> > but it is used in the ``jed'' editor for example.
TMA> These are undoubtably better languages than TCL, at least from a
TMA> "pure" language design point-of-view, but, then the current
TMA> configuration files will not be compatible with the new ones.
TMA> Maybe it is just me that want the configuration files to be
TMA> backward compatible... If that is not an issue, then I would use
TMA> perl. My main reasons for this is the large base of modules for
TMA> perl and especially perl/tk that would enable lots of new
TMA> possiblities... An perl is multi-threaded!!!
And in another message continued:
TMA> As I have written elsewhere, my main reason for using TCL as the
TMA> new configuration language, we to provide backward compability
TMA> wit hthe current configuration files. If that isn't an issue,
TMA> then we could use perl.... (see followup to Brian More for some
TMA> of the reasoning for this).
Perl can parse anything. What's the problem?
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Received on Thu Apr 30 1998 - 20:13:29 BST