DN637754681

Subject: Re: Is Tcl/Tk good for large projects? - DN [1]

pehrens@nospam.ligo.caltech.edu (Phil Ehrens) - 22 Jun 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 Tom Krehbiel wrote:
 >I am in a new job and just talked to my boss about Tcl/Tk. He said forget using
 >Tcl/Tk it isn't any good for large projects. I know this to be false but need
 >some unbiased references. Where can I find testimonies that include information
 >on the size of the project.

 How about right here:

 We are using Tcl as the "glue" or "steering" language for
 our data analysis subsystem.  So far about 50k lines of
 Tcl code, and about 500k lines of c/c++, and everything is
 humming along nicely.
 One test system has been running continuously for several
 weeks now, here is it's heartbeat URL:

 http://www.ldas.ligo-la.caltech.edu/ldas_outgoing/logs/APIstatus.html

 Ours is about a half-billion dollar project.  Big enough?
 Hundreds of computers, terabytes of data per year...
 Just WHAT is supposed to limit the size of the project that Tcl can
 be applied to?

 See:

 http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/

 Or, you can just point your boss to:

 http://www.quickturn.com/success/motorola.htm

 And he can start his own in-house investigation by talking to
 that Bob Ostrom guy... didn't he almost get elected to congress?

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