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| | | (...) Kevin: Before you choose between Tcl and Perl, you might want to broaden your focus a little. Neither Tcl nor Perl are particularly good extensibility languages, even though Tcl was ostensibly designed as an extensibility language. My first (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) oooh - I like this :) not to mention, it allows LPub to work in "server mode", for multiple clients. I'll write the perl implementation for it :) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) I'm not sure what the advantage to this would be. The POV rendering already consumes 100% of your computer for hours, if not days. More clients would just make things worse. What you really want is for LPub to do distributed image rendering (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Don Heyse
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| | | | | (...) Yeah, but don't define yet another new protocol. Go with a simple protocol that already exists like XML-RPC. (URL) don't much simpler than that. Plus if you look at the implementations page you'll see that tcl, perl, java, and just about (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Wayne Gramlich
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| | | | | | (...) Don: No matter what stategy is taken, there needs to be a documentation effort to describe what features of LPub are going to be provided for extensibility. This is true irrespective of whether a particular scripting language is selected (e.g. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | (...) Agreed. It does seem a bit silly to spend all this time discussing languages and protocols when we don't even know what LPUB features will be accessed by said languages and protocols. (...) I'm not sure how you can have those doubts when we (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) I've tried to outline some of the interface on (URL) think that both topics are relevent now. The protocol is easier to lock down than the extensibility, because that will be forever growing and changing. (...) Is anyone out there interested (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I noticed the tcl/tk version of the LSynth GUI didn't get too many comments. (URL) you had any thoughts on how to make the LPub GUI portable? It's a bit heftier than the LSynth GUI, but it's probably doable in tcl/tk. Don (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:HD4uy9.204w@lugnet.com... (...) I played around with it and thought it was pretty neat for how few lines of Tcl it was. I'd wager the existing LPub GUI could definitiely be done in (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) for the student. The only reason I wrote it was to prevent annoying comments from my editor because he doesn't have a clue on how to run a command line. IMHO LSynth GUI provides no added value beyond the annoyance prevention, but I started on (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | | (...) contained (...) it (...) OK, so I've been a little overwhelmed with the whole LPub extension topic, so this seems a little harsh in hindsight. I didn't mean to sound so selfish. Open source and multiple platform are both goals, but there are (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Embedded language support in LPub —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | (...) Thanks for the wonderful suggestion Wayne. (...) I'll go for the language neutral socket solution. (...) I'll only allow one connection though, at least until I reorganize my data. <snip> (...) At first my head started spinning through all (...) (22 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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