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Re: AppleScript and FCodes

At 12:39 PM 3/4/99 -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
>-------------------Snip
>> For instance, scripting offers a better way to access the same
>> functionality. .... Unless there is an internal scripting
>> solution, or at least complete external scripting, fcodes are
>> sometimes the only way to do certain actions.
>
>I've been curious about this since I started using Frame last
>year: given its Unix origins, why wasn't TCL embedded as a
>scripting solution? TCL was originally designed to be used as
>an internal scripting language and it's amazingly easy to
>learn (or it was for me, at least :-). Seems like that would
>have been the logical way to go -- as it is, we have three
>different (and incompatible) external script implementations
>for three different platforms.
>---------------------------Snip
Yes! TCL would be the ideal scripting solution. I haven't visited TCL for
about 8 years, at which time I wrote a user's manual for employing it in a
particular high-end application. Has it been ported to platforms other than
Unix?
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