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Re: Embedded language support in LPub
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:50:24 GMT
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:38:15PM +0000, Mike Walsh wrote:
> In the real world I work in the CAD business - my employers (Mentor
> Graphics) develops and sells CAD tools for Electronic Design (aka EDA).
> Over the years we have migrated from proprietary scripting languages to
> industry standard languages. Most of our product groups have migrated to
> Tcl for their extension language although we had one group go with Perl.
> The group that chose Perl has recently decided to drop Perl in favor Tcl.
> Why? Two main reasons - one was compatibility with our other tools (which
> is probably not an issue for LPub) however the other reason is that our
> customer support metrics show that Tcl is easier to support than Perl. The
> language itself is easier to "read" and learn for most users.
it's true that Tcl is probably easier to read and support, over the
phone. Perl is more powerful, and therefor harder to understand what a
user is trying to do in his code.
I'm not sure this would be an issue for LPub though.
[snip]
> I read an article recently that Perl 6 is under development and will
> significantly change the language syntax. I think it might have appeared in
> the Linux Journal but can't recall for sure.
perl 6 is under development, but it would run perl5 scripts out of the
box. It would give all sort of wonderful new features, but it will
probably not be released in the next few years. See
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ for more info.
This is, I agree, Kevin's decision. I just wanted to cast my
(accumulated) 4¢ :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20030408155024....ron.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Not just over the phone, live and in person as well. More powerful does not always mean something s better. Perl allows people to do a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HD11Aq.CBL@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) My personal prefeence would be Tcl. I think it is a better scripting solution for CAD tools than Perl is. I have worked with (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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