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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Message-ID: <id.RGYL1.NO4@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3unlc6$2cf@felix.junction.net> <3urdet$hd4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <3uvlar$9ju@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 16:12:34 GMT
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In article <3uvlar$9ju@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> Many people consider Tcl a less thoroughful designed hack, however.

Them's fighting words. Tcl is very carefully designed as a scripting
language, and an extension language for applications. It's not designed
as a swiss army knife. Ousterhout deliberately left features out of
Tcl to avoid ending up with a huge pile of hacks.

Tcl has a perfectly valid role in FreeBSD, and a bmaked port is sitting
there in my account on freefall, ready to slip into the core any time
you're ready. It's not as fast as perl, but it's smaller and cleaner and
more importantly it's designed to integrate with existing C code from
the start. It's the best tool available for integrating all those config
file management issues under one hood.
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