On Feb 12, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Landon J Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:

> There have been various partial efforts to revisit the Tcl<->C/ObjC bindings 
> question, and possibly replacing some of the MacPorts core in C/ObjC. Take a 
> look at base/src/cflib1.0 and base/src/tclobjc1.0, for example.
> 
> If I were ever to revisit the problem space again, I'd use this as a jumping 
> off point to begin reimplementing portions of the stack in C/ObjC and 
> replacing Tcl -- slowly working my way down the stack to the point that 
> eventually only the actual port interpreter was running Tcl for the purpose 
> of scripting port build/installation.

This is an intriguing idea, although it would no doubt require a ton of work. 
What would be the advantages of such a rewrite?

vq
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