Re: [ns] Noting javasim - ns-like simulator.

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

>(http://www.javasim.org/ and their mailing list should be up
>and running now.)
>
>The below should get rid of all those grumbling that ns is written in
>horrid C encapsulated in C++ rather than being properly
>object-oriented, and perhaps those grumbling about Tcl too - they
>won't have to mess with bound variables, and they can go write their
>own interface to their favourite scripting language rather than using
>Tcl.
>
>...
>
>not planning on going near the JDK anytime soon, but wondering what
>scripting language javasim users will settle on.

Actually, I believe if you look at Javasim you'll see that their
scriping language is ... Tcl and Python.

Therefore I presume they must have some equivalent to ns's "bind", or
certainly some way to take parameters from the configuration language
and get them to the low-level implementation language.

   -John Heidemann