Why is tcl broken?

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at news.hex.net
Mon Jul 12 19:46:27 EDT 1999


On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:41:59 GMT, William Tanksley
<wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote: 
>(although I am curious as to whether an indent/dedent based syntax might
>be amusing in Lisp).

That would provide opportunity for the implementation to be criticized
inanely by *absolutely everyone.*

Not only those that see Lisp as "too many parens," but also those that
knee-jerk into thinking that Python must be worthless due to
"indentation-sensitivity."

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