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From: rpeck@java.nas.nasa.gov (Rodney C. Peck)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
In-Reply-To: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu's message of Thu, 29 Sep 94 20:05:51 GMT
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In article <1994Sep29.200551.4815@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

   Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.scheme
   From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
   Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 20:05:51 GMT

   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. 

Actually, the information being posted is largely useless.  It doesn't
matter how simple it is to make a hello world program.  The real
question is how the code can grow and still be supported.

This discussion is a classic example of the usenet and its holy wars.
Can we start talking about how NFS sucks too?  How about how my Amiga
beats your TRS80 Model III?
--
Rodney

