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In article <1585@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> maniac@cleanhead.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) writes:
> 	I have a few questions to ask about TCL, and a few possibly 
> invalid observations to make.  First of all, is there any way to get
> a copy of the paper that describes TCL?  I'd like to see it to get
> a better idea of what it is cabable of.

It's in the package at "sprite.berkeley.edu:ftp/tcl.tar.Z". The only problem
is that when I got it through BITFTP it got messed up somewhere around that
part of the tarchive. If you get a good copy of the file "usenet.ps", perhaps
you could post it to alt.sources.

The rest of the documentation (what I could get) I recently posted to
alt.sources, along with the System V version of TCL.

> 	Second, it is my impression that programs with TCL interfaces
> talk directly to each other, rather than through an intermediate, as with
> ARexx. While this is good as far as speed goes, I do see one limitation
> to this.  I'm currently working on a mini-database with an ARexx interface,
> and my script interpreter will pass any unknown functions to ARexx, much
> like DME does.  Now, I don't have to know which host or library defined
> the function, so long as the library or host has been identified to ARexx
> as such.  Can this be done with TCL?

Not currently. Of course you can always pass it through a TCL/REXX gateway.
We're working on a resource manager for TCL that may serve the same purpose.

In fact a bare TCL interpreter can serve the purpose, now that I think of it:

send resource-manager proc whatever {args} [concat send $myname {$args}]

So you can now send undefined commands to resource-manager. Or just leave the
script interpreter out of your program altogether and let the user put this
together.

> 	Finally, I don't see why somebody couldn't write a set of 
> library functions to implement a command interpreter similar to that 
> of TCL.

Sure. That's exactly what TCL is. A set of library functions that implements
a command interpreter similar to (in fact identical to) that of TCL. Why do
it again?

> 	I am interested in TCL, but for now I think I'll stick with ARexx. 
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