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Subject: TCL Stability - DN [1]

jwu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Jiang Wu) - 15 Mar 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 I recommended embedding the TCL interpreter into our
 application server.  There are questions from the project team
 members about the stability of the TCL interpreter.  We plan
 to embed the TCL interpreter version 8.2+ into a Java application.

 If we only write TCL scripts that uses the built-in commands
 plus the Expect package, will we run into problems such as
 null pointers and core dumps?  We will not be using Tk.  We may
 load other TCL only packages that do not depend on C any extensions.

 I am interested in knowing your experiences using the TCL
 interpreter.  Is the TCL interpreter easy to crash, very stable,
 or impossible to break?  I haven't used TCL since 1993.  As a
 result, I don't have any idea on how well it is working today.

 Thanks.

 -- Jiang Wu
    jwu@cs.stanford.edu