Re: Need general guidelines and book suggestions

Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
28 Sep 1997 23:16:29 -0400

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From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers.tools.pccts,comp.compilers
Date: 28 Sep 1997 23:16:29 -0400
Organization: SP Systems, Toronto
References: 97-09-057 97-09-078
Keywords: interpreter

Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@nsc.com> wrote:
>> [ so how do we do an extension language? ]
>
>Why don't you adopt one of the standard interpreted languages
>that are around like Perl or Java?


The problem with those two examples is that they aren't really designed as
extension languages, and are big and complex and not all that easy to fit
into an existing application. The purpose-built extension languages, like
Tcl, are a better fit for this requirement.
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