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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What language would you use?
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In article <1994Nov6.073330.5017@news.cs.indiana.edu>,
Steven Miale <smiale@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> Why should the user have the put $ in front of variables? The computer should
> be able to realize these are variables by itself. Tcl does this, too. WHY?

Different reasons. Perl does it to differentiate simple variables from
arrays and functions and things. Tcl does it because it's implicitly
quoted.
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