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Re: Ousterhout article on scripting applies to scheme

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Ousterhout article on scripting applies to scheme
From: schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu.NO-SPAM (Scott Schwartz)
Date: 31 Mar 1997 21:45:16 -0500
Organization: PSU CSE
mikemac@engr.sgi.com (Mike McDonald) writes:
| I've been of the opinion that what most people like about TCL/Tk is
| Tk, not TCL.

Tk is just one of a large number of tools built around tcl.  Expect is
another popular one.

Here's the design spec for TCL:
  For all X, what people most like about TCL/X is X.

In other words TCL is a pretty damn effective language for building
solutions by composing components.  It gets the job done, and it
doesn't get in the way.

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