From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6934 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2000 19:51:28 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Aug 2000 19:51:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 6658 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2000 19:50:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3348 Received: (qmail 6650 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2000 19:50:52 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:50:49 +0300 (EEST) From: Juhapekka Tolvanen To: zsh-user mailing list Subject: How people use dtksh and tksh Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT --- Clip here --- From: damercer@mmm.com (Dan Mercer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: How you use Dtksh and Tksh? Date: 26 Jul 2000 13:30:57 GMT Message-ID: <8lmp6h$b11$2@magnum.mmm.com> In article , Juhapekka Tolvanen writes: > > I just started some discussion in mailing-list called zsh-users: I > asked about possibility to create Dtksh and Tksh replacements for > Zsh-users. I proposed creating possibility write to Tk, Gtk and maybe > even Gnome-applications with Zsh. > > One raised issue was usefullness of such things. > > So, would you ksh-users please tell me: For what purposes you use > Dtksh and/or Tksh? How useful it is? Does it work well? > > Currently, it is possible to write Tk-, Gtk- and even Gnome-apps with > Perl and Python. Is it better idea to just stick with those two > scripting languages? > > http://www.kornshell.com/ > > http://www.kornshell.com/software/ > > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/tksh/ > > I use dtksh for building useful little utilities like program launchers. It's much easier to write in dtksh than in tcl, python or perl. If I was going to write in any of those three, I would write in C instead - no more difficult, easier to read and no learning curve. Dtksh scripts are very efficient - remember, most of the work is being done in the shared library routines. You can also add your own builtins easily, which I have done for some X calls that were inexplicably left out. -- Dan Mercer damercer@uswest.net --- Clip here --- -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * * U of Jyväskylä * * juhtolv@st.jyu.fi http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/index.html * "STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- "so impressed with all you do. tried so hard to be like you. flew too high and burnt the wing. lost my faith in everything" nine inch nails