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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Looking for Lastest Tcl
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 18:16:34 GMT

In article <truesdel.670643220@sun418> truesdel@nas.nasa.gov (David A. Truesdell) writes:
> The "Hackercorp" version of Tcl seems to have some nice extensions, but it
> is not completely compatable with the Ousterhout Tcl, so I have not used it
> to any great extent.  Perhaps they (The "Hackercorp" folks) could coordinate
> their work with that of Ousterhout, to produce one enhanced version of Tcl.

We would love to do so, and have in the past sent Ousterhout copies of
our fixes and extensions. He has, to his credit, picked some of them up...
but he doesn't appear interested in any closer co-operation than that. He
is mainly using TCL as an extension language for X. We mainly use it as
a scripting language and an extension language for traditional UNIX style
applications, so the differences are understandable.

What does 5.0 have over 3.0, other than the change in the name of the X
toolkit?
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