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From: guycole@netcom.com (Guy Cole)
Subject: Re: "Why you should not use Tcl"
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Daniel C. Wang (dw3u+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: tom@mario (Tom Sandholm) writes:
: > Russell Nelson (nelson@ns.crynwr.com) wrote:
: > : In article <RMS.96Apr24125747@beehive> rms@beehive (Richard M. Stallman) writ\
: > es:
: > 
: > : > We will forever be the team that likes to code in Scheme, not Tcl.
: > 
: > : I'm a contributor to the GNU project, and personally, I have no use
: > : for Scheme OR TCL.  Give me Perl any day.
: >   You must like to do things the HARD way!!!

: Perl has the right feature set to get stuff* done. Other langauges could
: learn a lot. :) 

: *stuff = most of your unix scripting/text munging/networking needs..

How nice.  Thank you for sharing.  (Even if you don't know what my
UNIX scripting/text munging/networking needs might be).

Now, is there a followup from Lord or Stallman or do I need to
go to another newsgroup?
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