[some topic drift here]
> > I have the ability to turn perl scripts into Windows .exe, albeit at
> > the cost of making a fattish binary...
>
> I can too.... now. ;)
>
> But if I wrote something to do this now I'd probably write it in Tcl.... easy
> to make a gui that works on Linux, Windows or Mac, capabiliities similar to
> perl (though with kinda retarded syntax) and trivial to make a standalone
> executable on any of those platforms which is surprisingly unbloated (I've
> never had one that didn't fit on a floppy yet.)
There's a prefectly terrific Perl/Tk library these days...
Isn't Tk the juice that gives Tcl its GUIs?? If so, I'd strongly
recommend it, it's what my wrapper to Blint/ launcher of DASM
that I'm working on is in.
> I've been working on an emulator front end so I can run the same interface off
> of CD or floppy on all the machines in my house and while Tcl is an annoying
> language, the crossplatformness without size or dependencies or low level
> programming is kinda nice.
Do you think Tcl compiles to smaller than Perl, is that what you're
getting at?
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