What other apps use Tcl as an embedded language (like Expect) ?

Kenny McCormack

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Nov 19, 2010, 9:00:46 AM11/19/10

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I'm just curious about this - I have no axe to grind.

Anyway, it is my understanding that most use of Tcl falls into one of
two categories: either standalone Tcl - as in "I wrote a program in Tcl
to do X" or "Expect". Are there any other (well known) apps like Expect
that use Tcl as an embedded language?

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Uwe Klein

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Nov 19, 2010, 9:29:03 AM11/19/10

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Kenny McCormack wrote:
> I'm just curious about this - I have no axe to grind.
>
> Anyway, it is my understanding that most use of Tcl falls into one of
> two categories: either standalone Tcl - as in "I wrote a program in Tcl
> to do X" or "Expect". Are there any other (well known) apps like Expect
> that use Tcl as an embedded language?
>

Xilinx ISE Design Suite and a lot of other EDA stuff like
foundry and simulation tools have tcl embedded.

The advantage of tcl here is
that it is quite enabling even if you have a "live" elsewhere.
And with tcl you are _not_ dragged by the ears
through version hell .. again and again.

uwe

tom.rmadilo

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Nov 19, 2010, 4:17:55 PM11/19/10

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On Nov 19, 6:00 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
wrote:

> I'm just curious about this - I have no axe to grind.
>
> Anyway, it is my understanding that most use of Tcl falls into one of
> two categories: either standalone Tcl - as in "I wrote a program in Tcl
> to do X" or "Expect". Are there any other (well known) apps like Expect
> that use Tcl as an embedded language?

I'm sure there are many. I'm most familiar with AOLserver.

Another large project I've used: BRLcad.

Oh, wait. Define well known!

Sean Woods

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Nov 20, 2010, 10:02:23 AM11/20/10

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On Nov 19, 9:00 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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Eggdrop

And totally obscure, the project I work on IRM

jemptymethod

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Nov 21, 2010, 8:34:48 AM11/21/10

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My totally obscure project too: http://code.google.com/p/deskml/

Colin Macleod

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Nov 22, 2010, 3:39:05 AM11/22/10

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On Nov 19, 2:00 pm, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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> to do X" or "Expect". Are there any other (well known) apps like Expect
> that use Tcl as an embedded language?
>

The Totalview debugger has Tcl embedded as a command language:
http://www.totalviewtech.com/products/totalview.html

tomk

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Nov 22, 2010, 1:31:43 PM11/22/10

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Tcl usage boundries can be somewhat vague. Here are some more that use
tcl eather embedded or in a system support roll.

Micropolis (A.K.A. "S*mC*ty")
bitkeeper (distributed configuration management)
Many Cisco routers embed tcl
Fossil (configuration management)
Cadence (EDA)
FlightAware (Airline Flight Tracking)

Tom K.

On Nov 19, 7:00 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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