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From: sw@smds.com (Steve E. Witham)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 23:29:53 GMT
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In article <Cwouov.1Mx@world.std.com> edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards) writes (to RMS):

>If you want to be relevant, you will have to come up with some concrete
>proposal of how to leverage existing technology to come up with an
>alternative to Tcl quickly. You have that technology already: elisp!
>
>Why not build an "algebraic" Tcl-like dialect on top of elisp?
...
>Another view of the same idea: turn emacs into a windowing shell.

or hook elisp to tk (plus an emacs-style text widget) and recode xemacs.

 --Steve

