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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. 
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:15:21 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> There is no reason to bring in an interpreter that has as it's primary
> benefit the ability to easily implement what is, effectively, "throw
> away code".  I believe "throw away code" should not be encouraged in
> the source tree.

Whoa, Tonto!

I think you do John a vast disservice by characterizing TCL as some
sort of disposable code generation facility.  It's as much designed
and capable of writing throw-away code as pretty much ANY reasonably
high-level language out there, and if you've seen fit to write only
disposable code with it (or seen this in frequent practice) then I can
only council you or your TCL role-models to rethink their design
principles as they are NOT using TCL to its fullest and most capable
advantage.  I've written plenty of code in TCL and C which was never
designed to be disposable and is still in active use today.  Just
because some task becomes easier and faster to implement by no means
implies that its lifetime is correspondingly shortened.  When that
does happen it's usually a fallacy induced by personal bias, not some
hacking law of physics.

					Jordan