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From: full_gl@pts.mot.com (Glen Fullmer)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
In-Reply-To: hfinney@shell.portal.com's message of 24 Sep 1994 16:07:22 GMT
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In article <361irr$jij@news1.shell> hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal) writes:

... ((Stallman's comments) 
	(warning us to beware) (read,) (understood,) 
	(but for brevity) 
	 deleted ;-)

> 1) I can find no documentation that Tcl was not designed to be suitable
> for serious programs.  It is clearly based on LISP, which has been
> widely used in the AI community among others for very serious programming.

Hal, Tcl based on LISP?  "clearly" to whom?  John, would you "clear" this up?
And who says the AI community does "serious programming"?  ;-)

Richard has gone down a similar road before.  It would be a bit premature for
to us to dismiss his comments "out-of-hand".  Let's hear him out.  I for one
would like to hear how he proposes to change the large investment in Tcl and
deliver a serious programming language for Tk that is as simple, as fast and
as well supported as Tcl.  The support for Tcl has been great, that is why a
lot of us are here!  Any collaboration between Richard and John or their
systems could only help "serious programmers" and "hackers" alike!

For Richard: "Are you going to support sTk?"  
             "Are there other languages, besides LISP that you feel fix the
              defects of Tcl?  If so, which ones?"  

As far as the differences between TECO and Tcl go, I am sure that Tcl would
not execute random letters as well as TECO!  ;-)
-- 
Glen Fullmer,          glen_fullmer@pts.mot.com,                  (407)364-3296
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