From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 01:14:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA03284 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA03279 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:14:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA21511; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:18:01 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606240848.SAA21511@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:18:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, plm@xs4all.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606240703.AAA27366@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 24, 96 00:03:47 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > Is 'bc' used by anything else, for example? Yet it's a useful thing to > > have. So is perl, so is Tcl, so are a number of other things. > > I thought the justification for bs was the same as the justification > for sh: POSIX 1003.2. ... so we should aspire to minimal conformance to a standard which embraces a consistent level of mediocrity? ... or is conformance to the standard meant to be a guarantee that the simple things will work as expected, so that stress can be spent on things more rewarding? > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[