From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 19 01:55:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17306 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA17301 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:55:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from papillon.lemis.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.970212) id BAA02387; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:55:38 -0700 Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) id PAA00905; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:55:06 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199706190755.PAA00905@papillon.lemis.com> Subject: Re: TCL In-Reply-To: <199706181211.IAA10652@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Jun 18, 97 08:10:31 am" To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:55:05 +0800 (HKT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Reply-to: grog@FreeBSD.ORG (Greg Lehey) WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~grog 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 Jamie Bowden writes: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > So your next FreeBSD book will be in C, sh, and awk? Should make for a > very interesting read. :) Yup. I'm thinking of calling it "Real Programmers don't TCL". Awk Greg