From: gavino on
lisp and haskell claim many powers tcl doesn't have!

do tclers miss it?

or can tcl do it all well

I remember old post about tcl being more porductive according to one
guy, who said tcl is rapid development galore.

opinions?
From: Neil Madden on
On 11/12/2009 06:06, gavino wrote:
> lisp and haskell claim many powers tcl doesn't have!
>
> do tclers miss it?
>
> or can tcl do it all well
>
> I remember old post about tcl being more porductive according to one
> guy, who said tcl is rapid development galore.
>
> opinions?

Such posts are pointless unless you want to compare specific features
for a specific application.

Lisp, Haskell and Tcl are all excellent languages.

Neil
From: tom.rmadilo on
On Dec 11, 6:01 am, Neil Madden <n...(a)cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 11/12/2009 06:06, gavino wrote:
>
> > lisp and haskell claim many powers tcl doesn't have!
>
> > do tclers miss it?
>
> > or can tcl do it all well

> Lisp, Haskell and Tcl are all excellent languages.

Little known fact: Tcl stands for "The Complete Language". It is
understandable that other languages would be compared to Tcl, the
perfect language (tpl, the less humble but more accurate acronym).
From: Larry W. Virden on

> Little known fact: Tcl stands for "The Complete Language". It is
> understandable that other languages would be compared to Tcl, the
> perfect language (tpl, the less humble but more accurate acronym).

Of course, it is little known because that's not what TCL stands for -
it stands for Tool Command Language
From: Uwe Klein on
Will Duquette wrote:

> Odd; I thought that was Perl.

Naw, perlites are the little bigeyed guys
that run around in your peripheral vision
and mumble "my precious, my precious, .." ;-)

uwe
ducking.