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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Tk (Re: GNU Extension Language Plans)
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In article <MARCOXA.94Oct24094710@mosaic.nyu.edu>,
Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu> wrote:
> In all the discussion I have seen about Tcl, I still have to see the
> argument that actually would clarify the wide acceptance that Tcl/Tk
> has gained.

Well, I started using Tcl before Tk even existed outside sprite. Why?
Because at 40k Tcl was the only extension language out there that was
practical to use on Xenix-286, and because it's still the easiest language
to suck existing programs in as extensions (because they're already
written to parse argv). It also let me write significant scripts on a
machine for which Perl was too large to compile, and the shell was too
slow. It turned a tortoise of a development environment into something
useful.

Tcl is still about the smallest useful extension language. I know it's
politically incorrect to worry about code size these days, but I come from
simpler times when megs were megs and ... oh, never mind ...
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