On 12 Jan, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, January 12, 2000 at 09:23:08 (-0500), Steven Hirsch wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: choice of extension languages for a heterogeneous client/server
>version control system
> >
> > I'll chime in against Tcl. Absolutely
Why not all of them? Or is this discussion about which is needed the most?
I'd like a well-designed basic framework that allows several language
bindings. I'd probably be most happy if the first three language bindings
were Python, Scheme, and Perl.
If it has to be only one language, I might be
Take a look at lua on http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/ it is small,
portable, with a powerful table mechanism allowing object-oriented
programming. Further, there are GUI bindings to tk, gnome and Java
available as add-ons.
Juergen
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Juergen Fuhrmann Numerical Mathem
Looking ahead a little, I would note that Software Carpentry
(www.software-carpentry.com), which is providing some serious money to
stimulate development of open-source tools for next-generation software
development (replacements for make, autoconf, gnats/bugzilla/etc. bug
tracking, and expect
