Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:21:38 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel N. Weber II) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. Message-ID: <199706160151.LAA08686@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199706160126.VAA15617@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel N. Weber II" at "Jun 15, 97 09:26:15 pm"
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Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying: > 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. Do you know Tcl? Can you comment on his criticisms from a position of informed impartiality? I was reading his criticisms before I started using Tcl seriously, and you could say that I have found it Good and Useful in spite of, and in the face of, his criticisms. Having corresponded with him personally on the matter, I find myself inclined to laugh in his face, given a personal interpretation of his motives. > There's some Linux distribution that I don't use (yet) on my own > machines that requires perl for basic functionality. I hate that. Yeah. Most FreeBSD kernels use prime opcodes, and I hate _that_. You have to draw the line somewhere. -- ]] 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 [[
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