I'll surrender to the temptation to add my two cents to the
tcl/Scheme flameage. Scheme is beautiful. But the standard doesn't
pin down enough for practical programming needs -- no exceptions,
record types, or module system. So everything that's written in the
language is implementation specific -- not portable.
In contrast to tcl, Scheme also lacks a portable C interface. And so on,
and so on.
It's not interesting to flame about why tcl is such a horrible language.
The reasons are all pretty obvious. Tcl solves a problem, horrible though
it may be, and Scheme, although beautiful, is not capable of solving these
problems. So the Scheme community needs to just shut up until and unless
they have a viable alternative to present the world. Less posting; more
hacking.
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