For review: Term display helper

[Tyson Dowd]

On 02-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 02-Mar-1998, Waye-Ian CHIEW <chiew at ibm.net> wrote:
> > [fjh wrote:]
> > 
> >    Uh, the scripting language?!?
> > 

...

> If you're going to have a scripting language at all, it
> should be powerful enough and expressive enough to write
> things that are significantly more complex than this.
> The world is littered with insufficiently expressive,
> poorly designed scripting languages, many of them
> cryptic and/or arcane.  We should think very carefully
> before adding another one.  If we do decide to have
> a scripting language, then it would probably be best
> to reuse one of the languages that was explicitly designed
> for use as an embedded scripting language (e.g. tcl, Python, etc.).
> 

There is a program called called "SWIG" that will add scripting support
for Tcl, Guile, Python, and Perl. See www.swig.org for more info.