Re: Why not SCM as a base for scsh?

[markf@ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman)]

Scott Schwartz writes:

 > shivers@lambda.ai.mit.EDU (Olin Shivers) writes:

 > | Tk is a terrible choice for a Scheme GUI. Osterhout, for reasons I
 > | cannot fathom, built tcl into the Tk functionality. This is
 > | brain-dead.
 > 
 > I disagree.  It was a brilliant engineering decision, in the spirit of
 > Gabriel's worse-is-better paper.  Tcl/Tk is simple, small, and highly
 > effective.

But it could have been all that and more if he had just done the right
thing in the implementation and separated Tcl and Tk. It was just
plain bad engineering.

-Mark