Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:51:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src Makefile.inc1 src/usr.bin/vi Makefile src/usr.bin/tclsh Makefile src/lib/libtcl Makefile Message-ID: <199809052151.OAA06551@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Sep 1998 23:17:25 %2B0200." <xzpogsucl96.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > 2. Eugene will continue to work on his TCL-requiring "new package > > system" and, just as soon as it's ready to bring in an initial > > version, Satoshi will add back in whatever the latest version of > > TCL is so that we can use it. > > Is it really necessary to write the new package system in Tcl? Can't > it be written in Perl? Am I the only one to consider Tcl bloat? It's not being written in Tcl, it uses Tcl as glue. This is what Tcl is designed for, and something that Perl does very poorly. Please, enough with the language wars already. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com
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