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From: mjp@cci.com (Mike Perico)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:19:46 GMT
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In article <367qen$500@tadpole.fc.hp.com>,
Kartik Subbarao <subbarao@concorde.fc.hp.com> wrote:
>In article <367307$1un@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
>John Ousterhout <ouster@tcl.eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
>>I encourage all Tcl
>>dis-believers to produce the "right" language(s), make them publically
>>available, and let them be judged according to The Law.
>
>It's already been done, and it's called Perl (actually Perl was around well 
>before Tcl I believe). See also the related discussion in comp.lang.perl. I 
>learned Tcl recently to play with Tk and expect, and I constantly was 
>frustrated as to the clumsiness of what I needed to say in order to get
>what I wanted. I've also introduced some Tcl'ers to Perl, and they dumped Tcl 
>like a hot potato.

This i have to agree with %120!!
When perl 5 comes off beta it is going to be great.                  

The only reason I use tcl is for tk. One of these days I should check out
tkperl. Many times while coding in tcl I think to myself that, "this 
would be much easier in perl." I think even tk is kinda clumsy at times,
things don't pack they way you would think.

>
>Once you're used to a Porsche, a Yugo just doesn't cut it ;-) And with
>Perl5, make that a Lamborghini!

:)

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