On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Relying on tonnes of external stuff being installed for a bug
>> reporting app is asking for a smaller list of bug reports. TCL
>> should be burned off the face of the earth IMHO... but that is
>> just because 99% of all TCL apps crash horribly or are incredibly
>> slow and crash, or crash and are incredibly slow, and stay
>> running in memory in the background without you knowing. ;o)
>
>
>As I recall, there's code in TCL to parse and display HTML; EXMH does it all
>the time.
No, I certainly wont use TCL... Someone else can, but not
me. Perl can parse HTML easily. If I need HTML parsing I'll use
C or perl, but that is my personal preference.
>Take the form at RHI's website, feed it to TCL and there's most of the UI.
>Note that the form also defines the required information.
Right, that is what I might do, but: 's/TCL/perl/g' ;o)
>Despite your claims wrt TCL, the only point I've noticed (and I use EXMH
>extensively), the only point I agree with is its speed. However, I do believe
>that even on my no-departed 486DX33, its performance would be fine if it had,
>maybe, 16 mbytes of RAM. Provided I used a lightweight interface such as
>AnotherLevel.
The problem is that if this app gets started, the goal is to
provide an easy to use client side interface to bugzilla, and for
it to be ultimately useful to everyone it should have as minimal
a set of dependancies as possible. Requiring TCL, means TK too,
and TIX, and 30Mb of other crap too. Every Linux system out
there has libc installed, any worth supporting in a wide manner
anyways. I'd say after that, more systems have perl installed
than tcl, and if I were to break using pure C, it would be to use
perl. Familiar ground, and more widespread and installed.
Personally though, I want to avoid anything but pure
unadulterated C. ;o)
Frontends could be written in anything though, including TCL.
But the core should be C. That should maximize the actual
usefulness to people, and the usage rate as well.
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