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- From: joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Joshua Rabinowitz-Summer-91)
- Subject: Re: How stable is TCL ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.180127.17882@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:01:27 GMT
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- In article <5945@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> jflet@dir.mcc.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >How stable is TCL ?
- >
- >I've seen occasional comments on the net mentioning occasional
- >'features' found in the TCL.
- >
- >Can somebody with experience in developing projects with TCL in
- >pascal / c summarise on the quality / stability of the objects.
- >I'm about to start using TCL and would like some forewarning of
- >potential problems.
-
- I have written one medium-sized app with the TCL and am starting a larger one.
- Quality of the product: seems quite high. Fairly good documentation,
- very good source code comments, complete source code for the TCL. People
- complain about the optimizer, though I have no problems (I just avoid it).
-
- Stability: I have no idea as to how much the classes will be changed
- with new releases. Most of the classes seem to be very well thought out,
- though I don't use all of them to their full ability. As others
- may have mentioned, the biggeds hang-up in the TCL comes about in
- disposing of objects: one must be careful to NULL all references to an
- object when it is disposed, or Bus Errors will soon follow.
-
- It took me a while to get up to speed on the TCL, but I had never done
- any serious OOP before.
-
- >
- >I've got TCL release 1.1, but I've heard later versions are in existance,
- >where are upgrades available from ?
-
- From symantec, I presume. I have heard of a 1.2, I think.
- Can anyone comment on whether or not I should get it, or\
- how much I will need to change my superclasses to take advantage of
- the TCL 1.2?
-
- I am also interested in hearing other people's experience with the TCL.
-
- >
- >regards,
- >
- >Julian
-
- Salutations,
- Josh
-
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