Version 19 of FW

Updated 2003-01-23 09:10:43

FW is for Fwongo - a nonsense word which I picked because it sounds like a name, but to my knowledge no one else uses as an internet handle (though I tend to use the name Metaxy nowadays) - aka Alex Liebowitz. You might see me in the Tcl'ers chat every so often, or on Everything2 as "quoi?".

I hate expr.

If you like Tcl for its high-level programming style, simplicity and cross-platform compatibility, you may also want to check out REBOL: http://www.rebol.com/

Its main disadvantage is that it's closed-source (though there appears to be an initiative to develop an open-source clone [L1 ]). Another disadvantage Tcl'ers (such as myself) may find is that it has many, many data types (it even has a types for things like e-mail addresses) and has no built-in implementation of threads or tasks or an event loop. A threading engine has been implemented, but instead of internal bytecode-based threading, it threads by running one line of actual textual code at a time from each thread. It's stupid, I know, but technically it works.

This has been an unpaid advertisement.

Oh, and I have a website: [L2 ]

Some code/writing of mine:


AIM Metaxyy, Yahoo! fimeriotuzit, ICQ 78769162, e-mail [email protected] (for now).


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