Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

[papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)]

In article <3343D13C.41C6@acm.org>, Thant Tessman  <thant@acm.org> wrote:
>Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
>> [...]  Remember that Sun is pushing Tcl for some obscure reason, and 
>> Ousterhout is apparently working for Sun now,  [...]
>
>I've been told (by friends who follow this stuff more closely than I do) that 
>Sun has already lost control of Java to the Evil Empire.  This might explain 
>it.

Sun is pushing Java more than ever. The reason for their interest in TCL 
seems to be this dichtomy between systems programming languages and scripting
languages.

 Paul Prescod