home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Path: sparky!uunet!eco.twg.com!twg.com!news
- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: Advice wanted on math functions for Tcl 7.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.202255.5730@twg.com>
- Sensitivity: Personal
- Encoding: 18 TEXT , 4 TEXT
- Sender: news@twg.com (USENET News System)
- Conversion: Prohibited
- Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:22:55 GMT
- Lines: 23
-
- jpalmucc@bbn.com (Jeff Palmucci) writes:
- ..
- > Someone will probably flame me, but I don't see any great use for
- > these functions in application script writing or GUI layout. (circular
- > windows?) Even though I have lots of stuff loaded into my emacs, no
- > one bothers to define sin or cos.
-
- What about applications which use transcendental functions *in* them.
- Check out calc.tk (written by me .. available on barkley). It's a simple
- four bang calculator with a menu full of trig functions. To do those
- trig functions *requires* Extended TCL (right now).
-
- Writing the transcendental functions on TCL (for portability) would
- be (erm) rather (erm) slow...
-
- 'sides .. there are some people around who like circular menus at least.
- Mebbe he can be talked into implementing 'em for tk?? ;-) ;-)
-
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
- <- During the '90s I hope it becomes: "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
-