On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> >Maybe we can get Scott to translate gpasm and gpsim to Java ;-)
>>
>> He would likely prefer Tcl. Me too. Tcl runs on all the
>> quoted platforms
>> afaik.
>
>For a simulator (where speed realy matters) and interpreted language
>like Tcl would be a bad choice. And when you consider Tcl have a look at
>Python, *much* better for more than a few 100 lines of code, and it has
>Tk too (Tk is/was IMHO the biggest reason to use Tcl).

Maybe. I was thinking of a command line engine written in whatever
(probably C optimized by a guru) with a Tcl front end. Or Python if you
want. The portability and tweakability of Tcl is very large. I don't know
about Python on Macs, it probably runs there too. I am also nervous about
languages where whitespace is significant ;-).

Peter

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