Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 21:46:50 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 Message-ID: <199805040346.VAA22863@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <2111.894252596@time.cdrom.com> References: <199805040327.VAA22752@mt.sri.com> <2111.894252596@time.cdrom.com>
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> > > Actually, I think there are a few tcl-using things in the tree already > > > > Where? I don't know of one. > > 'locate *.tcl' on your system - you'll find more than just contrib/tcl > in the list you get back. Stuff in vi is it on my box. There also some Xfree86 stuff, but I've never used the TCL stuff to setup since I run XIG's server, and use the XFree86 libraries. (Mind you, I certainly don't mind not having TCL in the tree, but the proponents claimed it would be really useful and that tools were already written and were going to be committed within a month or so almost 2 years ago:) revision 1.1 date: 1996/06/26 17:48:13; author: phk; state: Exp; Bmaked tcl 7.5 > > > but it's lack of time rather than the usefulness of TCL that has > > > really hindered progress here. > > > > If it were truly useful, it would almost write itself, wouldn't it? > > *grin* > > [Looks mystified] No? I don't know of anything, truly useful or not, > that does that in the field of computer science yet. :-) What I mean is that in many 'scripting languages' like TCL, most of the work is already done for you, so it takes very little time to do anything significant. So, in a 'couple of hours' someone should be able to whip up a fairly decent program, no? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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