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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:25:39 -0700
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>
To:        Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: somewhat new to java questions
Message-ID:  <36D2D683.1B87A611@plutotech.com>
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> Quite true.  I spent some time looking at [incr TCL] (the name is
> very clever), which provides a very nice OO implementation that is
> very similar to C++ and Java.

One feature of itcl I liked was that constructors that failed wouldn't
leave you with a half-initialized object.  They left you with no object
at all.  Good stuff.

> I didn't manage to get it to work
> on my 2.2.6 system, and will try again later this year when I
> can get the 3.1 CD-Rom set.

I know it works on FreeBSD-current.  Here at Pluto Technologies, we use
it in our products, which run FreeBSD.

> I am not sure how widely [incr TCL] is used, however.

I spoke with its author, Mike McLellan, two USENIX Tcl/Tk Conferences
ago: he said it's used by a fair number of private and government
organizations.  Even the Mars Pathfinder project used itcl to power the
GUI for driving the robotic Sojourner explorer!

--Sean


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