Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data. Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Axel Wienberg
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 13:43

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In article <1994Nov4.224514.16731@cpu.com> gwlester@CAPTAINHOOK.CPU.COM (Gerald W. Lester) writes:

   If you write modular applications where the application runs as
   multiple processes, tcl is good (at least good enough to control an
   oil and gas production facility in the Gulf of Mexico).

You are speaking hypothetically, aren't you? 

   I'd defining large as over 100,000 lines of tcl/tk code.

How did they do that ?!  Can you tell us some of the experience,
like, is it still maintainable, how reliable is it, how flexible is
it, how much external documentation/specification do you need to
understand the code, ... ?

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 because giants were standing on my shoulders"    |  Hinzeweg 9
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Subject: Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data. Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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