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Subject: Re: Extension/Scripting language comparisons
In-Reply-To: joemu@aardvark.mentorg.com's message of 11 Jul 1995 17:45:26 GMT
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>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Mueller <joemu@aardvark.mentorg.com> writes:

> I would be perfectly happy to be pointed to an archive of the TCL
> vs. Scheme debate. I hardly call the discussion "stupid" when what's
> at stake is an industry-wide standard for extension languages. We
> picked Scheme, but are now trying to gather information to defend
> against the Tcl/Perl fans. If you don't want to read the discussion,
> skip the thread (rather than wasting everyone's time by contributing
> noise).

Try <URL:http://icemcfd.com/tcl/comparison.html> and 
<URL:http://www.utdallas.edu/acc/glv/Tcl/war/>.

The latter also contains some discussions of the relevant GNU project,
which intends to produce a Scheme-like (or Scheme superset, if you
like) which will accept extensions written to Tcl, and which will
ultimately include something Rush-like (Rush being a cleaned-up Tcl
which is translated to Scheme).
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/

