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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 05:29:31 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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You are correct I do need a scripting language .The question is which one?

Not sure that I like tcl for this sort of thing .. however I am considering
it . The problem that I have with tcl for end users is that it is not
an intuitive language nor is it well structured unless one uses something
like tcl / incr. I have to think about it a little longer and explore 
other alternatives . 

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Narvi :
> 
> 
> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Still, if, at some point of time you think that there could be such a
> > > think as tcl based scritping (that is - there is an embeded tcl
> > > interpretator with a number of restrictions but access to the facilities
> > > of the program). And I don't mean something like emacs. And not
> > > something like MSWord. I mean something small, and with no commands
> > > written in tcl. It is a glue language after all.
> > > 
> > > I have done a lot of tcl commands, if you feel like getting some, let me
> > > know.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is not clear that we need tcl at least for the document project . 
> > 
> > Specially in light of something like ILU and hopefully with an Object Broke
r
> > can serve as "glue" for local or distributed objects. If we expand
> > on the http procotol provided with ILU all of the sudden we can 
> > have an interesting communication infra structure for our "documents" 8)
> > Also, ilu supports multiple language interfaces , c, c++, python and java.
> 
> I thought of tcl scripting more on the lines of a "macro language". Much
> more lightweight than a full system for describing/manupulating/
> interfacing objects in a possibly distributed system. 
> 
> Instead I thought of something that would allow you to write a (most
> possibly used-just-once) sricpt for adding extra identation to the
> paragraphs follwing a "heading" or change the alignment (or whatever) of
> paragraphs starting with/containg/... etc. 
> 
> 	Sander
> 
> > 
> >    ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
> >    http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/WhyILU
> > 
> > For an interesting article on c, ACE (c++), and CORBA (ILU comes very
> > close to CORBA) see:
> > 
> > 
> > "Programming Pearls from the C++ Report
> > C++ Gems "
> > 	Comparing Alternative Distributed Programming Techniques, page 317
> > 
> > 	Enjoy,
> > 	Amancio
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>