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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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In article <367pmt$qks$1@usenet.pa.dec.com> paik@mlo.dec.com (Samuel S. Paik) writes:
>Just a side note, Gabriel's note "Lisp: Good News, Bad news, How to Win
>Big" seems to be perfectly applicable to this thread.  

>Tcl is nearly a perfect example of the New Jersey "Worse is Better"
>approach.  It works, it is here now, it has a small and simple and
>portable implementation.

But compare your list to Gabriel's characterization of "Worse
is Better".  They're not the same.  I think there's much to be
said for you point, but it's also worth looking at the original.

-- jeff
