From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 17 01:15:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA02047 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA02040 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00770 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:15:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA14251; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:20:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970616212005.CG12178@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:20:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCL References: <17921.866444155@time.cdrom.com> <199706161148.GAA00821@main.gbdata.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706161148.GAA00821@main.gbdata.com>; from Gary Clark II on Jun 16, 1997 06:48:58 -0500 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Clark II wrote: > Yes, I know that some of you people dislike PERL the way I dislike > TCL, but so far I've not seen any apps that TCL could do that PERL could > not. (Maybe expect, but I've seen PERL code that does the same thing). I don't know Tcl (very much), and people who know me also know that i'm rather a Perl bigot. Anyway, i think Tcl is good in what it has been intended for by Ousterhout: an embeddable language. Sure, Perl 5 also has a C interface, but i would probably stop using Perl for my project by the time being tempted to require such an interface. Likewise, i couldn't imagine to the least would ever be usefully done in Perl, but i think a Tcl scripting for some C framework can really do its thing. As one of the Joels wrote here, each language for what it has been designed for. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)