Why is tcl broken?
Paul Duffin
pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com
Fri Jun 11 08:02:41 EDT 1999
Fernando Mato Mira wrote:
>
> Paul Duffin wrote:
>
> > Whether the choice of language is a good or bad idea depends entirely on
> > the context. i.e. environment and job to be done.
> >
> > You cannot avoid taking into account the context even if you only look
> > at the language from a semantic / syntactic view point.
>
> OK. Let's drop the word `choice'. Why do people think tcl is a bad
> language then, strictly from a _design_ viewpoint? Let's assume
> imperative languages are OK (responses like "it's not declarative"
> are obvious and uninteresting and do not help comparing it to other
> imperative languages).
Obviously I don't it has a few holes in it and some things could be
improved but I don't consider it a "bad" language.
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