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From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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In article <36d4nvINNo1g@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> hightec@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de  
(Michael Schumacher) writes:
> 
>    S T O P   I T ! ! !
> 
> 
> I'm obviously not the one who started this thread, but I hope you don't
> mind if I try to stop it right now. And if you do, please send me your
> flames using Email, *not* as follow-ups to this one.

You miss the point. Stallman raised a valid objection to tcl, 
i.e. that it has syntactical and semantical aspects that are likely
to make it unsuitable for certain things. Personally, I find
the discussion of this, and whether there are viable alternatives,
like perl and python, to be very useful. 

--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)


