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TCL & interface definitions (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot wi

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: TCL & interface definitions (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper)
From: "Mark Sterin" <msterin@bmc.com>
Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:20:11 GMT
Organization: BMC Software

Jack Jansen <jack@cwi.nl> wrote in article <jack.860328432@news.cwi.nl>...
> ...
> ...With languages like Python or Tcl, with
> no interface definitions whatsoever, you can only *hope* that you use
> every interface correctly. I work on a largish project in Python, and
> the one thing that gives continuous headaches is the lack of interface
> definitions. Whenever you change an interface it is very very
> difficult to check that you haven't inadvertantly broken something.

This what the regression testing is for, isn't it ?

-- Mark

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