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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:20:05 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCL
Message-ID:  <19970616212005.CG12178@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199706161148.GAA00821@main.gbdata.com>; from Gary Clark II on Jun 16, 1997 06:48:58 -0500
References:  <17921.866444155@time.cdrom.com> <199706161148.GAA00821@main.gbdata.com>

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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. ;-)



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