Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:54:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason we can't enable the bus mouse by default? Message-ID: <199508210254.VAA28320@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199508201054.MAA00921@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 20, 95 12:54:26 pm
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> tcl syntax is silly. It's a reasonable compromise between a user-level command level and a language like Lisp. I wouldn't want to have end-users editing a Perl command file, for example, but the Tcl syntax and rules are so simple and fit well into what users expect of a command file. It's a better fit to config files than just about anything else out there. Speaking of config files, tcl could parse the "config" file format directly. Just define Tcl commands for "option", "device", and so on. > The manpages are really bad (compared to perl). They're man pages. Like, you know, reference documentation? > tcl is actually a package and not in bindist. I ported the bmaked NetBSD version to FreeBSD. It could go in bindist tomorrow. That's a silly objection.
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