On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:55:00 -0700 "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <QUOTE> > One of the people at the USENIX presentation was Don Libes of the > National Institute of Standards and Technology. Don had been wanting > for some time to build a program to automate interactive Unix > applications, but the project had stalled because it needed a good > command language and Don didn't have the time to build one. After > hearing my talk, Don rushed home, downloaded Tcl, built a wonderful > application called Expect, and wrote a paper on it in time for the > submission deadline for the next USENIX Conference. This whole process > took just three weeks. Don made Expect freely available after > presenting his paper in the summer of 1990, and it became an instant > hit among system administrators. Expect was not only the first widely > distributed Tcl application, but for many years it was the most > popular. Many of the early Tcl users learned about it by using Expect. > </QUOTE> Thanks! Interesting bit of history I did not know. I am speculating Don reimplemented expect in C for efficiency. It is an interesting build process, since you do need the Tcl libraries to build the expect binary on Unix systems. I went thru that process around 1992 when I first discovered expect. -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell Systems/Network Architect email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: +1 602 421 9005 home: +1 480 922 7313 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
