Newbie switching from TCL

[Robin Becker]

In article <8o0e3c$7ls$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, paulduffin at my-deja.com writes
>In article <KqCqtKAJDVo5Ewvr at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk>,
>  Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> In article <8nr6en0mh5 at news2.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli
>> <alex at magenta.com> writes
>
>> >(P.S.: Visual Basic does allow threading [reluctantly, and only
>> >in recent releases], but event-handling is definitely at its core;
>> >considering that it probably has more users than Tcl, Python, and
>> >any one other scripting language you can name put together, it
>> >might be considered "prominent"...).
>> >
>> >
>

yes, but this is Win32 where visual basic only reluctantly allows
threading and prefers to use events; it should be easy to do eventing
why isn't it so for I/O. Seems like you can do select on sockets, but
not anything else. Extremely selective and confusing design.

>Tcl only uses a thread for non blocking I/O on platforms which do not
>support non blocking I/O. I think that this only applies to Windows
>sockets.
>
>
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Robin Becker