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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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Darin Johnson (djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu) wrote:
: In article <367307$1un@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> ouster@tcl.eng.sun.com (John Ousterhout) writes:

: > If Tcl makes people more productive then they will use
: > it;  when some other language comes along that is better (or if it is
: > here already), then people will switch to that language.  This is The
: > Law, and it is good.

: This sort of begs the issue that The Law is theoretical only and does
: not match actual practice.  For instance, an obvious corollary is that
: The Law applies to operating systems, yet the feet voted for MSDOS.

The market does not belong to the "best" product.  It belongs to the
first one that was just barely good enough.  That was MS-DOS for
business and office types.  That's the real world.

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Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  I am having FUN...  I
Rosemount Inc.                                |wonder if it's NET FUN or
                                              |GROSS FUN?
grante@rosemount.com                          |
