[REBOL] Re: browser-based apps
From: gjones05:mail:orion at: 7-Mar-2001 12:07
John Sequeira wrote:
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> Also, you might want to look at TclKit.
> http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/old/README.html
> Same idea as what you suggest, different (similar?) scripting language.
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And, while you are checking out Tcl, definitely check out TclHttpd, an all
Tcl Http server that is very configurable amd scriptable. It can be
wrapped
in the tclkit "scripted document" for very easy deployment on
one or numerous machines. The scripted document is cross-platform and
includes a non-sql database, whose data is stored in a compressed and
cross-platform format.
Tcl is very similar to REBOL in a Lispish way. It tends to encourage a
little more assignment and flows a little less naturally (sub-evaluations
need to be explicitly nested in brackets). In short, tcl isn't as
expressive
as REBOL, but it is mostly cross-platform, open-source and
free with broad range of available libraries.
dev.scriptics.com is a starting point, but
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/tcl/ by Philip Greenspun (of MIT and
photo.net fame), et al, has the best briefest introduction to Tcl that
I've seen.
--Scott Jones
