From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 3 20:46:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06258 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06253 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA29350; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:46:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA22863; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:46:50 -0600 Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 21:46:50 -0600 Message-Id: <199805040346.VAA22863@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/5296 In-Reply-To: <2111.894252596@time.cdrom.com> References: <199805040327.VAA22752@mt.sri.com> <2111.894252596@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Actually, I think there are a few tcl-using things in the tree already > > > > Where? I don't know of one. > > 'locate *.tcl' on your system - you'll find more than just contrib/tcl > in the list you get back. Stuff in vi is it on my box. There also some Xfree86 stuff, but I've never used the TCL stuff to setup since I run XIG's server, and use the XFree86 libraries. (Mind you, I certainly don't mind not having TCL in the tree, but the proponents claimed it would be really useful and that tools were already written and were going to be committed within a month or so almost 2 years ago:) revision 1.1 date: 1996/06/26 17:48:13; author: phk; state: Exp; Bmaked tcl 7.5 > > > but it's lack of time rather than the usefulness of TCL that has > > > really hindered progress here. > > > > If it were truly useful, it would almost write itself, wouldn't it? > > *grin* > > [Looks mystified] No? I don't know of anything, truly useful or not, > that does that in the field of computer science yet. :-) What I mean is that in many 'scripting languages' like TCL, most of the work is already done for you, so it takes very little time to do anything significant. So, in a 'couple of hours' someone should be able to whip up a fairly decent program, no? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message