From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 16 14:20:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA08769 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 14:20:21 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA08756 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 14:20:16 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA11043 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for freebsd.org!hackers); Sun, 16 Jul 1995 16:16:45 -0500 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA15212; 16 Jul 95 16:00:20 CDT (Sun) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA15209; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 16:00:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 16:00:19 -0500 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199507162100.QAA15209@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCL vs... Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199507161947.MAA15572@rah.star-gate.com> Organization: Taronga Park BBS Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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.