Purpose: to drive home the point that one should always strive to use the right tool for a job - even if that means not using Tcl!
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:54:36 -0400 From: Larry Smith <[email protected]> | Block Address Organization: Wild Open Source Inc. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Where's the lag? [[Was: Re: [[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire? "Larry W. Virden" wrote: > This is very well said. Do you mind if I quote you over on > <URL: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/> ? Sure! I'd be flattered. regards, Larry > In article <[email protected]>, Larry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > :"Donal K. Fellows" wrote: > :> > :> Bryan Oakley wrote: > :> > I've heard the swiss army knife analogy before. Nevertheless, you may have > :> > just won the coveted quote of the week prize :-) > :> > :> That's the "Shameless My-Language-Is-Better-Than-Yours-So-Sucks-Boo-To-You > :> Advocacy of the Week" prize. And against some fairly stiff opposition too. > : > :I can see how someone with a rah-rah-tcl-rulez kind > :of attitude - or sensitivity towards it - might inter- > :pret it that way. But the fact is, I'm a language > :maven, I learn practically every new programming > :language that comes out and mine them for ideas in > :an endless quest for a better programming language. > :Tcl has a good foundation and great potential, and > :in the tcl newsgroups I argue in ways to support and > :reinforce that (I hope). However, let me be blunt, > :next week I may well be in the python newsgroup > :pushing an idea to improve Python. Actually, I > :rather like Python, but then, I was always a fan > :of Wirth's languages and Python is at least partially > :a descendent of Modula. > : > :Python is really on another path anyway, I consider > :it more of a sibling of Component Pascal rather than > :as a killer scripting tool. When I need to get some- > :thing done, I reach for Tcl. But when I want to design > :something for the ages using the latest software method- > :ology - well, Python or Oberon/2 or CP would be my first > :choice. > : > :Even the greatest artists sketch sometimes, and sometimes > :those sketches are great artwork in and of themselves. > :But then sometimes a great artist picks up his palette > :and looks at a sketch on his canvas and plans to do some- > :thing greater with it... > : > :You see, the best workman uses the tool that is best > :for the task at hand. > :