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- From: jjensen@convex.com (James Jensen)
- Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:27:36 GMT
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- "David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:
- -
- - I dunno about the rest of you jokers, but what I'd like to see is:
- -
- - - ***SMALLER*** disk space requirements. (and smaller memory
- requirement)
- -
- - - More easily customizable environment, with customizations
- (sometimes)
- - just behind the front end of the tools.
- -
- - - Have the inner functionality of the tools made available in some
- sort of
- - script/program environment for building new tools. Particularly for
- - writing little X based interfaces ...
- -
-
- A more elegent and easier solution would be
- to modify gcc to produce code for an interpreter.
- The interpreter would be part of a shared library.
- This would save the disk space. If gcc produced the
- same internal code as Tcl or perl then your second two
- goals would be met, I think.
-
- I suspect that someone familiar with the internals of both gcc and
- perl/Tcl could do something like that fairly quickly. Anyone
- could do it more quickly than reimplementing all of the tools in
- another language. Heck, writing a compiler/interpreter from scratch
- would be faster than reimplementing all those tools.
-
- Jim Jensen - jjensen@convex.com
-