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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 00:38:58 GMT
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In article <19940924T224042Z.erik@naggum.no>,
Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.no> wrote:
: [T. William Wells]
:
: |   Mr. Stallman, though I am but an occasional user of tcl, I am
: |   sufficiently familiar with it to know that you don't know enough about
: |   it to have an informed opinion.  Rather than embroiling myself in the
: |   flamewar that your specious claims are sure to cause, I'll just observe
: |   that that sort of politicking is utterly contemptible.
:
: I found the above utterly contemptible.  let the first man with a gas can
: and a lighter be responsible for the flame war, not he who states his
: opinions, however unpopular.

Tsk. You of all people should know that I don't care about popularity....

Mr. Stallman said baldly that "[tcl] lacks arrays". That is either a
demonstration of Mr. Stallman's ignorance or it is an outright lie. Either
way, that *alone* is sufficient to disqualify Mr. Stallman from having a
valuable opinion on the subject. That *alone* removes his politicking from
the reasonable to the contemptible.  Never mind any of the other drivel!

I've directed followups to alt.flame, as that's the appropriate place for any
further comments from you on this subject.
