The Tcl Extension Projects
Overview:
Tcl-- what a small, elegant language! I became interested in Tcl only relatively
recently, in January, 1995 when I heard a talk by (who else?) John Ousterhout at Usenix
on the potential that Tcl has as a platform for (hopefully intelligent) internet
agents.
It seemed to me that the ability to backtrack would be convenient in constructing
such agents. Tcl's own nature invites extensions and it was not long after I returned
that I cajoled Dayton Clark into working on this project with me:
Backtracking and Constraints in Tcl-BC
Another Tcl-based project here at Brooklyn College is one carried out by
three undergraduate students: Anatoliy Shor, Leonid Massarsky and Anatoliy Glantz.
They are in the process of building a C-Linda-like extension to Tcl, basing it
on the DP-Tcl extension (no relation to the DP project described elsewhere in
these pages!):
Tcl-Linda
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