Grads scripting language

[Tom Pollard]

Hi,

Thanks for all of the quick responses.

On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> Take a look at http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gsf.html
> You have to tweak a few things in your scripts, but this capability
> allows you to call your own library of small functions.

Ok, I didn't know about this.  It's no exactly what I had in mind,
but it looks much better than nothing.

> On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Tom Pollard wrote:
>> If I can ask a provocative question, are people really happy with the
>> scripting language?  I started to work on writing some scripts last
>> year and found the language to be very limiting in a number of ways.
>> The main thing that bothered me was that didn't seem to be possible
>> to load one script from another, which prevents you from building up
>> libraries of reusable functions.  Has anyone considered using Tcl or
>> Python as an alternative scripting language?  If so, I'd love to help
>> work on this, in my (admittedly limited) free time.
It sounds like the answer is "no" - no one else is interested in
trying to integrate Tcl or Python as a scripting language for Grads?

Tom