'''The New Tcl Philosophy''' 
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 Small core         == Good.
 Static executables == Bad.

 Core only distros    == Bad.
 Fully loaded distros == Good.

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What bugs me about this ''slogan'' is that we do no necessarily see it
in practice.  For instance - many of the string features that have been
added over the past few years certainly could have been done in an extension
that was shipped with the core distribution - but instead, it went into the
core.

In fact, how much currently in the core has to be there?  Seems to me
that a small core interpreter, able to do loading of scripts, dynamic loading
of extensions, and interpretation of code, would be possible without sockets,
regular expressions, the history command, etc. in the true '''core''' code,
but with all those features distributed in the core '''distribution'''
of code, so that by default, Tcl would include those features - but as
dynamically loaded extensions.

The core itself might need some new features - to provide the abiltiy for
dynamically loaded commands to be treated as byte codes, for instance.