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Date:      Sun, 11 May 1997 22:16:25 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: project: editor 
Message-ID:  <199705120516.WAA04391@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 1997 13:45:11 %2B0930." <199705120415.NAA03075@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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tnks 

I have really used tcl/tk trust me : vic, vat, tcl-snmp, bat (my own
rtp based audio tool), and several other projects one of them was
a large scale distributed object system.

	Cheers
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Michael Smith :
> Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Not sure that I like tcl for this sort of thing .. however I am considering
> > it . The problem that I have with tcl for end users is that it is not
> > an intuitive language nor is it well structured unless one uses something
> > like tcl / incr. I have to think about it a little longer and explore 
> > other alternatives . 
> 
> This is the "I don't like Tcl" reflex.  It's like the gag reflex; once
> you recognise it, it's easy to deal with.
> 
> I am having a lot of success teaching basic Tcl to EE's and non-programmer
> types; if you stay away from the really evil things that you _can_ do with
> it, it's not so evil at all.  The "11 rules of Tcl" in the Tcl(n) manpage
> give you a good foundation to work with.
> 
> > 	Amancio
> 
> -- 
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