This list is to discuss scripting languages for handheld devices. For instance port of a Tcl like language to PalmOS devices such as the PalmPilot....
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 14, 1998 4:20 pm
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Has anybody ported Tcl to the Palm Pilot? It would be great to have and considering that somebody has ported linux, probably not much of a challenge. Wayne...
Wayne Christopher
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Jul 14, 1998 4:29 pm
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Linux port on the pilot is very preliminary and it would completely replace PalmOS, A version of Tcl running natively in PalmOS would be more interesting (and...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 14, 1998 4:29 pm
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... Count me in to help/hack/code. If Oracle & Sybase can port any meanifully version of their database systems to the Palm, Tcl should be possible. I've...
Tom Poindexter
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Jul 14, 1998 4:30 pm
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I'd be interested in working on a Tcl port but I have zero experience with the Palm development environment. I downloaded the 3.0 SDK (will 3.0 executables...
... I'm by no means an expert, just been reading. Zero actual coding for me too. Executables can be more than 64k, by utilizing libraries, which are less than...
Tom Poindexter
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Jul 14, 1998 4:31 pm
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I bounced the previous mails we discussed so they should hopefully appear in the archive here. Laurent ... Read this list on the Web at...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 14, 1998 4:32 pm
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Hi, One concret issue (between hundreds) : Would Tcl on Palm include an 8.x like byte compiler and byte code support or should it be just an interpreter ? ...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 14, 1998 11:27 pm
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I think there was some discussion of making a lean-and-mean version of 8.0 that didn't include the compiler or bytecode interpreter. John said something about...
Wayne Christopher
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Jul 14, 1998 11:39 pm
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... Yes theoritically, the new parser in 8.1 might be 'extractable' as standalone... That might need some more work though... Also that parser has the...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 15, 1998 12:37 am
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... I agree with Wayne on the speed point. As long as we get 'acceptable' performance from a string only interpeter, I'd rather not worry about porting the...
Tom Poindexter
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Jul 15, 1998 2:38 pm
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Hi guys, I don't want to jump ahead, but if you haven't tried PocketC yet, give it a whirl. PocketC lacks some interactivity, but it does lay the foundation...
Dave Griffin
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Jul 16, 1998 9:23 pm
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Hi, What I want is simply to be able to write Tcl scripts that run on a Palm Pilot -- with access to normal services provided by its operating system. As with...
J Adrian Zimmer
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Jul 17, 1998 12:58 am
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... Not unless you limit the bytecode to a subset of the language : you can always do things that require a full Tcl_Eval to be called on a string. E.g. while...
Wayne Christopher
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Jul 17, 1998 1:18 am
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Indeed, I tried PocketC and found it very interesting, with a lot of good ideas to inspire from as you pointed out ! The tcp/ip access - tcl's "socket" command...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 17, 1998 5:03 am
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As to whether it would be easier to implement a bytecode interpreter than the whole thing: I have assumed the bytecode interpreter implements Tcl_Eval and its...
J Adrian Zimmer
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Jul 17, 1998 3:07 pm
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Tcl_Eval does not create a new interp, you have to pass one. Also the interp commands deals more with interp chaining, sub and safe interps, aliases, etc.. ...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 20, 1998 10:22 pm
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Here is a small proposal/reflection which I think is relevant to small devices scripting. The html version and updates are on ...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 23, 1998 6:50 am
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I suspect other scripting languages began with a similar list of goals. Given their experience, I would expect your document to spend a little time explaining...
J Adrian Zimmer
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Jul 23, 1998 2:00 pm
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{opsa, I forgot in my previous mail to answer one of the points!} J Adrian Zimmer wrote: [...] ... a) for sure. b) in the sense that if we can make it...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 25, 1998 12:15 am
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First thanks a lot for taking the time to read and comment on my proposal ! ... Some of them probably yes. I pretty sure all of them weren't and that a lot of...
Laurent Demailly
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Jul 24, 1998 11:56 pm
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i have seen a book explaining the palmscript language but i didn't buy it at that time. i've never seen it since. anyone know of any books explaining the...
The Cottrell Brothers
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Sep 4, 1998 2:23 am
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It must be a different "palmscript" because I made up this name for a language which does not yet exist :-) Sorry ... -- dl ...
Laurent Demailly
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Sep 4, 1998 10:28 pm
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Looks like findmail/makelist changed their name and though they were supposed to maintain the old names, not all are working... so the new email for posts is :...
Laurent Demailly
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Sep 29, 1998 9:21 am
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I like and use Tcl, Python, and Perl for a lot of work, so I'm not hostile to those languages. but I wonder whether they fit comfortably onto a PalmPilot. ...
Thomas
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Nov 10, 1998 6:19 am
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I do think a small Tcl could/should fit nicely on a Pilot, after all the hardware of a pilot is more powerful than the original Macintosh, on which Tcl enabled...
Laurent Demailly
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Nov 14, 1998 2:00 am
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Is this for real? Who is developing it? What's the word? tcorcora@......
tim_corcoran@...
Nov 12, 1999 8:49 pm
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I think nobody is working on it. At one point I had hoped there was or would be a port of Tcl to the palm so I could write little scripts easily, and I looked...
Wayne Christopher
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Nov 12, 1999 10:20 pm
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Tcl2K is the upcoming (Feb, 2000) Usenix conference for Tcl/Tk developers. I hope that you all plan on coming. Perhaps, with the ongoing interest in Tcl on...
