Re: Scripting Languages (was Re: Techniques for writing an interpreter)

Chris Gregg <cgregg@dsp.sps.mot.com>
30 Mar 1998 21:42:54 -0500

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From: Chris Gregg <cgregg@dsp.sps.mot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Mar 1998 21:42:54 -0500
Organization: Motorola, Inc. Austin, TX
References: 98-03-032 98-03-098 98-03-141 98-03-147 98-03-159 98-03-186 98-03-201 98-03-233
Keywords: interpreter

Our moderator wrote:
> it right away. But I realize that people have put together fairly
> large applications in TCL, even though TCL doesn't offer the name
> spaces and data structuring that you'd usually want for a large
> program. -John]


Fear of getting to far away from compilers, but...


TCL actually does provide namespaces as of 8.0. Data structuring
on the other hand isn't very well supported, though it is possible.
(ObCompiler reference) And TCL's new bytecode compiler does make it
run considerably faster.


Regards,
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