From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 17 18:59:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21697 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA21690; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA19495; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:29:46 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706180159.LAA19495@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: TCL In-Reply-To: <199706180108.JAA00340@papillon.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jun 18, 97 09:08:13 am" To: grog@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:29:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: > > I won't disagree with any of this. I just disagree with the concept > of having to use different languages for different purposes. (dons > asbestos underwear) As far as I am concerned, there are three > languages: (Bourne) shell, awk, and C. Sure, it takes more effort to > write some things in C than it would in perl or tcl, but you don't get > boxed in so easily. Speaking of boxing, watch out for the ears next time you come 'round 8) There are things that a good extension language like Tcl can do that would require an astronomical amount of effort to achieve in C; using such a language lets you leverage the fact that someone else has already done the work, and given you a very flexible, generalised means for accessing it. > Greg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[