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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:42:25 -0700
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. 
Message-ID:  <199503290242.TAA12717@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199503281744.RAA11596@star-gate.com>
References:  <199503290127.SAA12442@trout.sri.MT.net> <199503281744.RAA11596@star-gate.com>

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> First of all I did not participate on including perl into the system.

I had a 'very' small part in it.

> And, I was one of the first programmers to port tcl/tk back 
> in the days of 386bsd so to say that I like today tcl/tk because is
> fashionable is not too cool but crude.

It wasn't my intent to be cool or crude.  I never once said you liked
tcl/tk because it was fashionable, but alot of folks are writing tcl/tk
programs because it is now fashionable.

> Now lets talk about fashionably about the problems of providing
> a decent object oriented paradigm.

Perl5 does a very good job.  It does the best job I have seen of any
readable interpreted language.

>  > IMHO, Perl is much more readable than tcl/tk.  It has a much nicer
> 
> $Sorry $I $hate $Pearl...

To each his own.  

>  > ,and since we don't have tcl/tk
>  > in the system and no reasons to bring them 'right now', then I think
> 
> Very lame excuse if you ask me specially if pearl is not up to the job.

Yes, but as I already stated, we already have tools that work along with
Perl that *are* up to the task.  They aren't tcl/tk though...

This is the last posting on this subject I'll make.  I apologize for not
making it blatantly clear, but my intent is to say that what we have is
adequate, and there is *NOTHING* that causes us to move to tcl/tk while
there is a large number of utilities in the tree that require Perl.

If you want to provide something wonderful which will make an
overwhelming arguement for including tcl/tk in the system then I'm sure
it will be included.  Until that happens, it isn't part of the system.


Nate



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