Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CNC scripting stuff....

Alex Holden wrote:

>On 18 May 2005, at 1:00 am, Paul Amaranth wrote:
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>>I'd go with TCL. After all, what's more natural than Tool Command
>>Language?
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>Ugh. I wrote a bunch of Eggdrop modules once in TCL. Trying to get
>anything useful done with it felt like swimming in porridge for
>somebody used to the power and flexibility of C. If I had to do it
>again I would forget Eggdrop and write the bot from scratch in a more
>modern language.
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Right! TK/TCL are meant for creating GUIs, and are a bit rough, but
handle a
lot of the complicated details of packing many windows, buttons,
sliders, etc.
onto a screen. But as a programming language, it leaves a GREAT deal to be
desired. Debugging is nearly impossible, too!

Jon