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Re: Applications of WINTERP

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From: Victor Kan
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 01:23
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1.  Provide an truly interpretive environment for Motif applications.
    It doesn't "interpret" compiled intermediate forms, e.g. uid files.
    Resource values can be changed at run time very easily.
    It gives access to full programming language constructs, as 
    opposed to what you might get with the various resource file tools.

2.  Allows shortcuts for quick testing.  You don't have to go
    through the hassle of defining functions for callbacks.  You
    just specify some lisp forms to evaluate.

3.  The programming interface is customizable with subclassing in the
    XLISP object system.

4.  Can be used as a GUI server using the 'wl' program and 'system'
    function interface for basic IPC.

5.  Some C/Motif ugliness is mapped into nice Lisp, e.g.
    arrays<->lists.

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Subject: Re: Applications of WINTERP
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