Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing

Robert Withrow (witr@rwwa.com)
11 Oct 1994 13:57:13 GMT

In article <JANSSEN.94Oct10185337@holmes.PARC.Xerox.Com>,
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes:

|> Actually, the lack I was thinking of was that the language itself is
|> too slow and clumsy to do large things in it, like implementing Tk in
|> Tcl, instead of C. Anytime you want to do something significant, you
|> have to drop into C.

My wife's job is a Meeting Planner, which means she travels all over the
country (and out of the country) to plan and run meetings.

People often say ``Wow, you *get* to go to all of those places.''
To which she responds ``No, I've *got* to go to all of those places.''

The poster complains that ``You've *got* to drop into C to do certain things''.
To which I respond, ``No, you *get* to drop into C to do certain things''.

People hate what they hate, and they like what they like, and it is
foolish to argue about it. (On the other hand, I would entertain
an airtight argument why *nobody* should like liver...)

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