Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

[schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)]

jenglish@crl.com (Joe English) writes:
| I thought Ousterhout's paper was a terrific piece of marketing.

And why not?  He's had years of solid results with a good product, and
wants people to know about it.

| the paper certainly has flaws -- the failure to even mention
| Lisp and Scheme (both of which have all the qualities he
| cites as desirable in a scripting language)

What would be the point of mentioning them?  Lisp's reputation for
inefficiency and immiscibility with other langauges would just scare
away people who would otherwise be turned on to a good idea.