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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter 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 Lines: 20 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. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"