Ftcl: New developments
August 2007
FEMTOL
The CVS repository contains "FEMTOL", an April 1 experiment to implement
a part of the Tcl language in FORTRAN 77. This is not meant to be a
serious experiment, and I do not intend to work on it anymore.
It was mainly intended to see how difficult it would be to implement an
interpreter without the aid of memory management and recursive
subroutines. Well, it is difficult, though not completely impossible.
Ftkgui
The module Ftkgui and the corresponding example in the subdirectory
"gui" is a much more serious attempt to build a library that will allow
a Fortran programmer to easily create graphical user-interfaces.
The idea is to encapsulate a large number of the standard widgets and
their facilities in small Fortran routines, so that you do not need to
know anything (or hardly anything) about Tcl/Tk.
Wrapfort
In a way, Wrapfort is work in progress to achieve the reverse effect:
using Fortran libraries in Tcl without having to program in Fortran (and
only very small amounts of C). See the documentation.
This "wrapper generator" is getting into a useful state. I have created
a separate directory for it in the repository.