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From: mjp@cci.com (Mike Perico)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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In article <367nsdINNa54@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de>,
Michael Schumacher <hightec@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> wrote:
>
>> But Tcl syntax seems strange to most users.
>
>Sure. That's because Tcl is a programming language and not a program intended
>to be used by end-users... (just kidding :).  I think most "users" (in the
>sense of people who would like to be programmers) got a very bad attitude:
>"real programmers don't read manuals!".  Tcl/Tk is probably one the best
>documented software *ever*, its syntax is easy, the behaviour of the

You have to be kidding. Even the book written by John is hard to read.
I think the best documented software ever is perl...or anything
published by O'Reilly & Associates. They are docs gods :). I learned to use
perl in a day and finished writing a small data base (even used curseperl
for cool menus)in a week. I still have trouble using tcl/tk.

Actually there is a tcl book coming out written by Brent Welch which
seems to be very helpful. I would check it out if you like to use tcl.

Tcl is ok. I use it from time to time, but i don't see it as the best
scripting language. To me...that would have to be perl.         

>parser/interpreter is absolutely predictable.  But if folks are not able to
>read (and understand) the five necessary rules, Tcl isn't.  But then, any
>other language isn't either.  IMHO, Tcl code is far more readable than
>certain Makefiles...


p.s. I have no affiliation with O'Reilly or Brent Welch.

Mike

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