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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20030408192657....ron.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This would be an interesting statistic to know. I wonder how one might find this out. Somewhere on the web there has (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I figured you weren't, but, wouldn't a rough estimate of who uses what *within* the community help? Just a thought. -Tim (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) but I'm not talking about LDraw.org users, nor am I talking about LUGNET users. Some things, a poll isn't the right answer to :) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That could be another LDraw.org web poll, or a LUGNET poll... -Tim (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I believe you can write unreadable code in any language - perl perhaps makes it easy for you, but it also lets you write extreamly readable readable code - just a matter of style. [snip] (...) I don't know - that's up to Kevin to decide. I (...) (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:HD1BFD.1D64@lugnet.com... (...) It looks like you have all of the ones I can think of. Being able to control all of the settings that are available from the GUI is top of the list. It (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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Dan and Mike, <snip> Any feedback on what I outlined for scripting interface and such? Kevin (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Kevin, Thanks for all of your hard work on this program! I downloaded the new version last night, and noticed during installation that the version number shown on the first splash screen was for 2.1.0.6. -Joel (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) 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] (...) perl (...) (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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(...) perl, of course :) and if you know perl, and not Tcl, I think you should go with what you know. (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, LPub fans may be aware that I'm planning on adding scripting language support into LPub to let the *power* users do what they want, including prototyping new features that may someday be incorporated directly into LPub. The idea behind (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, I only posted this to announce, but thought wiser. I've released LPub 2.1.0.7 for general use. It contains a few new minor features, but more importantly there are fixes to the combination of rotation steps and buffer exchange, as well as (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Hey, since you're planning on using tcl for lpub, perhaps it makes sense to convert the lsynth GUI into a portable tcl/tk app. I haven't done any tcl/tk in years, but I took a quick stab at it. (URL) still needs some work to get the log to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) I like the word because for me it implies that others can develop such "plugin" things. (...) I like perl syntax better, but I really think that the Tcl solution is much more lightweight. (...) Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Kevin, I wondering if you were going to notice the usage of the word "plugin"! This sounds great! Can't wait to start hacking around with TCL! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, Jake, thanks for the label suggestion. I'm going to release LPub with the fixes and new features indicated in /www.lugnet.com/cad/dec/1527. This will get a few major fixes and features out there for people to use. The next development step (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry about the delay. I made most of the changes that Steve suggested, along with a few others, and posted both a line-number-annotated .txt version and an html version. The html version can be found here: (URL) still not 100% complete, I (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, I made almost all the changes you suggested. I only skipped one, as noted below. I also made some other changes that are all indicated by the 12 version number at the beginning of each line. (...) I don't think I agree. I don't think people (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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