From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 11:26:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA14102 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:26:08 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA14096 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:26:06 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA20219; Mon, 17 Jul 95 12:18:41 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507171818.AA20219@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: TCL vs... To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 12:18:40 MDT Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507170651.XAA00518@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jul 16, 95 11:51:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > What solutions does it provide that aren't already addressed by existing > > languages? What's its killer app? > > Better yet do we have any developers which can write killer apps :) > > You are right we have plenty of languages so where are the apps ? Bad place to ask. The people on this list have been seduced by the system side of the programming (dark side of the force?) and don't want to do application programming. 8-(. You're unlikely to see a free clone of "Microsoft Office" in the near future... anyone who developed one would most likely sell it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.