LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk [LWN.net]

LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk

Posted Sep 25, 2009 16:00 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk by anselm
Parent article: LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk

>The original idea behind Tcl/Tk was that the meat of an application would be written in a language like C, and its functionality be made available as Tcl commands.
Indeed, in my first proper job I worked on a scripting language for processing vector data which was based on Tcl.

>This is the NIH phenomenon at work.
I wonder whether how much of the (useful part of the) current FOSS ecosystem would exist without all that NIH though :) Perhaps we would all be using Windows or Macs. Be that as it may, if I ever get round to implementing the thing I discussed above, it is likely to be as a lightweight binding for Glade-3, which looks like it does ninety percent or more of what I am looking for now.

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