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From: rob@cygnus.com (Rob Savoye)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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>RMS's statement may be read as a slam on Tcl in favor of yet-undelivered
>tools from the GNU project.  we may note that dejagnu uses Tcl at present,
>and we may assume that some lessons were drawn from this.  RMS's statement

  I actually like Tcl, RMS and I have had this same discussion for years. As
I got tired of waiting for the ultimate scripting language, Tcl/expect suits
me just fine. DejaGnu is rather large, including test suites, it's  easily
a few tens of thousands lines long. I actually tried using elisp way back
in DejaGnu's infancy, but it's child process handling sucked.

	- rob -
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