Re: [ Tcl & ] Open Scripting Architecture?

Al Bledsoe (abb2u@netcom.com)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:12:49 GMT

Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: In article <3een49$b6q@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>,
: Ray Johnson <rjohnson@insurance.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
: >
: >An OSA version of Tcl does exist on the Mac. However, I don't think
: >it is supported & I don't know if it will work with OpenDoc. I would
: >love to see an OSA version of Tcl/Tk. However, getting Tk to run on
: >the Mac is a higher priority at the moment...
: >
: >If someone is working on an OSA version of Tcl I would love to hear
: >about it. That might be something we could work back into the official
: >release at a later date.
: >
: is no freely|cheaply available generic Unix SOM by then: whether OSA
: can be built on top of ILU instead of SOM. If both are CORBA compliant,
: they *should* be able to interoperate. The same should go for a Sun
: OSA-Tcl built ontop of their object technology. Another reason I'm
: looking at a higher level abstraction like OSA. )

: This turned into a longer, more rambling post than I had intended:
: well, there are a lot of issues here, and I didn't have time to
: make it shorter! :-)

You reference CORBA compliance. How does the IDL fit into the equation?
Do you know where some free references on IDL can be obtained? OMG
wants $50. Evidently the Interface Description Language is in Chapter
4 of the CORBA Specs.

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