Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

[danwang@salomon.CS.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Wang)]

After thinking about J. O's paper it looks like what he's really talking
about is domain specific versus general purpose langauges.

Where "scripting language" = Domain Specific 
and "systems language" = General Purpose.

When he talks about "gluing" I think he's really ought to say putting
together primitives designed by someone else that are at the right level of
abstraction. Read with this perspective some of what he says sounds a bit
more resonable.