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From: twpierce@quads.uchicago.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Why you should not use Tcl
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In article <Cwuo1E.Bz9@cvbnet.cv.com>,
Michael Brodeur <mbrodeur@cvbnet.cv.com> wrote:

>In the grand GNU tradition,
>product intentions are announced long before anything tangible is
>available.

Indeed.  This surely undermines the corollary argument that
rms's "real motive" is some sort of market monopoly --
they're obviously not rushing to get anything out the door.

>Those who have been around for
>a while will remember what has come before in this vein: Emacs 19 and Hurd.
>In each case people got tired of waiting and came up with solutions in
>the interim (Epoch/Xemacs and Linux).

Linux was hardly developed because Linus was "tired of
waiting" for HURD.

I've seen Linux.  I'd rather wait for the HURD.

>Finally, I'd like to note for the record that Tcl is avaiable NOW,

Thanks.

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