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4 Sep 2024 15:23:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What's in an IDE?  
From: Darren New
Date: 3 Mar 2010 11:00:12
Message: <4b8e878c$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>>> JavaScript is the only language I know which might conceivably be 
>>> able to do COM stuff. (If it can, I don't know how yet.)
>>
>> Out of curiousity, what languages *do* you know? I thought you'd 
>> worked in Tcl before.
> 
> Yeah, I've done some stuff with Tcl. But I didn't see anything in the 
> documentation about COM. 

It's an extension called tcom.

http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/

I'll grant you it took two googlings to find it. ;-)

> (I gather you can add extension to Tcl to do 
> just about anything - but I'm not sure exactly how you link the 
> necessary C code into the interpretter...)

You say "package require tcom"

> (But The Real WTF is that there's a Haskell package for doing COM stuff, 
> and - get this - it doesn't compile on Windows...)

Heh.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"


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