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From: papresco@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper
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In article <3343D13C.41C6@acm.org>, Thant Tessman  <thant@acm.org> wrote:
>Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
>> [...]  Remember that Sun is pushing Tcl for some obscure reason, and 
>> Ousterhout is apparently working for Sun now,  [...]
>
>I've been told (by friends who follow this stuff more closely than I do) that 
>Sun has already lost control of Java to the Evil Empire.  This might explain it.

Sun is pushing Java more than ever. The reason for their interest in TCL 
seems to be this dichtomy between systems programming languages and scripting
languages.

 Paul Prescod

