Version 19 of TinyTcl

Updated 2007-06-18 18:58:18 by LV

There are several things referred to as TinyTcl. For instance:

 What: TinyTcl (Wippler)
 Where: http://www.equi4.com/tinytcl/
 Description: TinyTcl is a small Tcl interpreter rewritten from scratch in C++.
        It is intended to examine ideas on creating a very small
        embeddable Tcl interpreter.
 Updated: 07/1999
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Jean-Claude Wippler)


 What: TinyTcl
 Where: http://tinytcl.sourceforge.net/
 Description: A Tcl 6.7 based Tcl, designed for embedding in small devices.
        After compilation, interpreter is about 60k.
        Currently at version 6.8 .
 Updated: 10/2001
 Contact: See the website

 What: Tinker
 Where: http://www.wildopensource.com/activities/larry-projects/others.php
 Description: a Tcl-like interpreter in C, very small and embeddable.
 Updated: 12/02
 Contact: [Larry Smith]

 What: Cricket
 Where: http://www.smith-house.org:8000/open.html
 Description: an extension of Tinker, it uses a titoo -

titoo: a thought experiment -

 style "second argument dispatch" embedded in a Tcl-like language.  [] does what
 you would expect in Tcl, but () does a titoo style 2nd argument dispatch.  
 It is used in Cricket to implement expressions.

See also Jim, MicroTcl for Tcl9, PalmTcl,

 ... [[what are the pages describing other minimal-size tcls?]]

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There's a few choices: TinyTcl, Jim, MicroTcl, and PalmTcl. How does someone know which one to pick for their application?


I'm often using TinyTcl for very small applications, but how can i wrap an executable including tinytcl.exe as runtime?


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