Re: Tcl vs. Lua

slebetman@yahoo.com wrote:

>>Please point me to the person who told you that, "TCL is too
>>slow for mobile devices".

> Lisa Pearlson.

>>As it stands, that's simply not true.

> I also said that it is not true.

In case you hadn't seen it, I wrote a sort of small cousin to Tcl called
Hecl that runs in J2ME environments:

www.hecl.org

It's not a speed demon, but it's a very dynamic scripting language
written on top of Java, and it's still usable on my relatively low-end
Nokia 3100. If you have an environment where Tcl itself runs, it's fast
enough for a whole lot of things. Where it isn't, most other scripting
languages aren't likely to be either, and if you want to be *fast*, you
want to rewrite that code in C in any case - something that Tcl lets you
do with relative ease.

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