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- From: titus@dallas.sil.org
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Extension Languages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.131000.79@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:10:00 CST
- Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center
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- Craig Durland (craig@cv.hp.com) writes:
-
- >I've done this and it seems like a big win. I didn't use C for the
- >language-to-write-editor-extensions and I don't think you want to - C
- >is too "low" level for writing extensions in (its great for writing the
- >editor itself). Extension writers shouldn't have to worry about memory
- >allocation and all the other little details that C requires you to.
- >This doesn't have to take lots of memory - I have garbage collection,
- >recursion, lists, etc and the total editor size is < 150k (68k Unix).
- >The extensions run slower than native C code but that doesn't seem to be
- >much of a problem.
-
- I realize that you work for one of their major competitors,
- but DEC's TPU (Text PRocessing Utility) offers a real nice
- language for implementing editors. You might want to have a
- look at it, or the third-party implementation nu/TPU.
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