Martin v. Löwis wrote: ....... > I think this question needs to be answered on a case-by-case basis, > but my guess is that it is in most cases historical. Work on Tcl > started in 1988, and it was the first (major?) embeddable scripting > language (that is also free software etc). Python wasn't released > until 1991, and wasn't first recognized as being just as easily > embeddable (and I think early releases weren't as easily embeddable > as today's Python is). ...... in the 70's many of the people I knew in engineering were using forth as an embedded language. Of course the embedding was the final application as the controlling computers were really puny eg pdp8/9/11.
At that time the concept of free software hadn't even arisen. I believe forth was proprietary, but it was widely available to academics and many machine tools and similar control applications used it. -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
