From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 03:55:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA24193 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 03:55:02 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA24182 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 03:54:58 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA03522; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:55:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:55:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCL vs... In-Reply-To: <199507162100.QAA15209@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Jul 1995, Peter da Silva wrote: > In article <199507161947.MAA15572@rah.star-gate.com> you write: > >I am not interested on started a language war but perharps by following > >the Tcl vs... thread it can help us understand the current limitations > >of tcl, guile, pearl, etc... or their strengths... > > [That's perl, no "a"] > > Yeh, I remember that discussion. I haven't seen anything to change my > opinions, but more to the point I don't see what relevence it has to FreeBSD. > What solutions does it provide that aren't already addressed by existing > languages? What's its killer app? > > The ports tree already contains four Schemes (most of which are, and this is > a Good Thing, smaller than Guile), Perl, Tcl, and so on and so forth. Yet > another language... this time one covered by the Gnu Public Virus... is, well, > just yet another language. > > If you want to excite *me*, come up with an embeddable Smalltalk. > Maybe I should dust off my old Smalltalk. It implements the Smalltalk-80 virtual machine and class library, including a compiler (implemented in Smalltalk) and a GUI with all the standard browsers, inspectors and debuggers. The virtual machine is completely GPL free but the class library uses some code from GNU smalltalk. I guess that could be fixed though. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939