Why is tcl broken?
Paul Duffin
pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com
Tue Jun 29 05:02:49 EDT 1999
Klaus Schilling wrote:
>
> Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it> writes:
>
> > Paul Duffin <pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com> writes:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > Correct. With Tcl you can create new control structures which
> > > are indistinguishable from the built in ones, you cannot do
> > > that in Python. Python is much more rigid in its syntax although
> > > it does have a lot of nice hooks to allow objects to behave
> > > in different ways.
> >
> > But you can do that much more easily and elegantly in the L-word
> > language :)
>
> It can be done best in the Scheme, by means of the almighty
> call-with-current-continuation, the best of all control structures,
> and define-syntax on top of it.
>
Both Tcl and Scheme can do it, "best" is subjective.
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