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demi-compiled (Score:1)

by belg4mit (967)

I'd always been led to believe Tcl was a strictly interpreted language, and this was the source of man of the hoops one must go trhough for math, string munging, etc. (It has been a long time since I touched Tcl)

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- Re:demi-compiled (Score:1)
  
  by jdporter (36)
  
  I'd always been led to believe Tcl was a strictly interpreted language
  
  And so it was, until version 8.
  
  Now it is a "meta-compiled" (or is it "demi-compiled"?) language, just like Perl and all the rest of these modern high-level dynamic languages. (with perhaps a few exceptions. One that might not be (yes, I ought to go check) is Rebol, considering its progenitor is Forth.)
  - Re:demi-compiled (Score:1)
    
    by Elian (119) on 2002.07.15 12:08 (#10623) Homepage Journal
    
    Version 1 of REBOL is tokenized and does weird things internally, as it's entirely done in Continuation Passing Style. (Saw a talk by the guy who wrote the code) Version 2 was a complete rewrite of version one, since nobody understands CPS, and I dunno how they do it.
    
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      by jdporter (36)
      
      Anyway, it's too bad that we can't say more about Rebol, being as it's closed source.

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