[Asterisk-Dev] unsubscribe

[Percy Kwong]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Max" <max at suse.de>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Re: [Dev] TCL for configuration?


> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 at 09:28, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> > Simpler?
> 
> Yes. Definitive.
> 
> > How many users do you expect to know how to program in TCL?
> 
> Tcl is very easy to learn, because it's syntax is very small, clean
> and consistent (see "man Tcl"). Stuff like loops and control
> structures are normal commands in Tcl, and not part of the Syntax.
> 
> And one wouldn't even need to know how to _program_ in Tcl just to
> write a config file that follows Tcl's syntax rules, and gets
> interpreted by an embedded Tcl interpreter.
> 
> 
> BTW, initially Tcl got developed for exactly such purposes. John
> Ousterhout, the initial author of Tcl, found himself writing many
> specialized and limited little interpreters to add scripting
> capabilities to all his IC design tools written in C. So he had the
> idea to write a generic interpreter that can easily be embedded and
> extended, build it as a library, and re-use it for all his projects.
> 
> See http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/tclHistory.html for more details.
> 
> 
> cu
> Reinhard
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Dev mailing list
> Asterisk-Dev at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
> 
>