q-lang-users

[q-lang-users] q-lang suitability for my project

[Dave J. <dav...@go...>]

Hi,

I have written a piece of software that acts as a gateway between OSC
packets,
and FreeWrl's External Authoring Interface. The project was written in TCL;
basically
I gave up on Java and C a long time ago.

The issue I now face is deployment. To deploy it on another machine, I need
to
download and complie the TCL-UDP library and TCLlib for checksums and UUIDs.

In total it is about 800 lines of TCL (apart from OSC liibrary I had to
write myself),
 and relies heavily of TCL features such as arrays with hashed character
keys,
freely moving between data types and the TCL event loop to handle both the
UDP (OSC)
datagrams and the TCP socket to the EAI.

Is this project a candidate for a novice (to q-lang) to re-write in q-lang ?
Would the deployment in q-lang be any easier, ie just a language engine
download and an application download ?

Dave Joubert

Re: [q-lang-users] q-lang suitability for my project

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Dave Joubert wrote:
> Is this project a candidate for a novice (to q-lang) to re-write in q-lang ?

Difficult to say without knowing a whole lot more about your project.
Have you used a functional programming language before? I think that in
any case you'll just have to learn a little Q so that you can decide
yourself.

> Would the deployment in q-lang be any easier, ie just a language engine
> download and an application download ?

Depends on the target system. Binary packages for Q are readily
available for SUSE, Fedora and Windows, and there is an OSX port in the
MacPorts collection. (The Fedora and MacPorts packages don't include the
OSC interface, but the OSC module is just plain Q, so no compilation is
required and you could also include it with your application.)

Caveat: Q isn't available for 64 bit systems yet. (I'm going to work on
that in the next few months, though.)

HTH,
Albert Graef

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
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