On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 1:13 AM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems you're aware of existing builds mirrored to iBiblio. (It was > most likely me who mirrored those, for completeness, but honestly I've > never used Tcl and don't know of many apps using it. Still, it sounds > promising.)
TCL is a script language originally created by Dr. John Ousterhout, who is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stamford University. It's a glue language intended to tie other apps together in a framework One popular usage is building test harnesses for software testing efforts by QA engineers. The best known usage of TCL is probably Expect, an application created by Don Libes at the National Bureau of Standards. Libes built it out of TCL to permit automated communications between systems that could normally only be communicated with manually, by parsing responses from remote systems and sending whata was expected based on them. (I've used it to do that.) TCL also developed a graphical toolkit called TK which has subsequently been applied elsewhere, like the FLTK toolkit used for one of the DOS GUI efforts. I'm fascinated by the inclusion of Sqlite. That's a *very* widely used SQL compliant relational database implemented as a single library. (Among other things, it's what Firefox uses to store bookmarks and history among other things - the bookmarks/history file is an SQLite database. Having a working SQLite port for DOS is an "Oh! Cool!" moment. Lots of possibilities there. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
