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From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
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	from Michael Smith on Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:35:12 +0930 (CST))
Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems.
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   From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
   Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:35:12 +0930 (CST)

   Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying:
   > we want to use.  (I may well rewrite parts of the user interface
   > in Guile and use Tk; I don't know yet.)

   Tk already comes with a perfectly good scripting language; Tcl.  Don't
   let another of RMS' irrational bigotisms put you off.

It's perfectly rational.

At least, I know I like C, and I know I don't like perl.  But I'm
inclined to agree with RMS's critcisms of TCL.

There's some Linux distribution that I don't use (yet) on my own
machines that requires perl for basic functionality.  I hate that.

   [this is someone else rambling]

Actually, both parts were written by someone @gnu.ai.mit.edu whose
name is Joel.