Why is tcl broken?

[Paul Duffin]

Klaus Schilling wrote:
> 
> Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it> writes:
> 
> > Paul Duffin <pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com> writes:
> >
> >       ...
> >
> > > Correct. With Tcl you can create new control structures which
> > > are indistinguishable from the built in ones, you cannot do
> > > that in Python. Python is much more rigid in its syntax although
> > > it does have a lot of nice hooks to allow objects to behave
> > > in different ways.
> >
> > But you can do that much more easily and elegantly in the L-word
> > language :)
> 
> It can be done best in the Scheme, by means of the almighty
> call-with-current-continuation, the best of all control structures,
> and define-syntax on top of it.
> 

Both Tcl and Scheme can do it, "best" is subjective.

-- 
Paul Duffin
DT/6000 Development	Email: pduffin at hursley.ibm.com
IBM UK Laboratories Ltd., Hursley Park nr. Winchester
Internal: 7-246880	International: +44 1962-816880