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From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To: terry@lambert.org
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Subject: Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

    Terry> Tcl/tk are OK for the fornt end tool, but not the backend
    Terry> implementation.

But it'd be perfect for providing an *interface* to the backend
implementation.  That's one of Tcl's strongest features: it's easily
embeddable---and you get a set of nice scripting primitives as a
bonus.

-- 
Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/