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From: lwv26@chemabs.uucp (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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It would however be appropriate to indicate one's personal agenda along
with technical issues with which one is first hand familar and then indicate
that one has heard of other issues.  For instance, in RMS's document
he claims there are no arrays in Tcl while there obvious are.  There
are ways to implement linked lists, binary data, modules, exceptions,
etc.  Not all features known to God are implemented in Tcl - the whole
idea was to make an interpreter which was _small_ but which one could
extend if one needed a feature.
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