Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

[Chris.Bitmead@alcatel.com.au (Chris Bitmead uid(x22068))]

"Graham C. Hughes" <graham.hughes@resnet.ucsb.edu> writes:

> I don't traditionally program in Scheme or Common LISP,
> not because I don't have interpreters or compilers for them, but
> because they aren't good enough at string processing to interest me.

I must disagree. I find scheme *wonderful* for string
processing. Using map and filter functions and for-each, you can do
incredible things in a few lines of code. And it's fast too!