Data Objects George A. Howlett Bell Labs Innovations for Lucent Technologies Abstract Scripting languages are great for gluing together components, but they suffer as the complexity or size of data scales upward.
Data objects are self-contained representations of data.
They define both the structure of the data and the methods to access it. Data may be accessed through both Tcl and a C interface. This paper will describe two such data objects, a vector and table object. View the full text of this paper in HTML form and PDF form. If you need the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it from Adobe's site .