From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 21 09:37:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22863 for current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22856 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA18436; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:33:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606211633.JAA18436@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Way To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:33:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Jun 21, 96 07:21:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > > I'm against the inclusion of TCL in the main line source tree > > for the same reason that I don't believe an "add user" script should > > be written in PERL: because it limits the reusuability of the code > > by blurring its boundries to the point that the algorithm is not > > fundamentally seperable from the interface implementation. > > Generally I share your sight, but even SunSofts Solaris 2.x uses > tk in the main system... If all the System V vendors jumped off a cliff... ? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.