Why is tcl broken?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <lw67471fyi.fsf at copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it>,
Marco Antoniotti  <marcoxa at copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it> wrote:
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>spin. :) Finally, AFAIU, a Tcl "macro" must run as an interpreter of
>the spec. A Common Lisp (Scheme) macro is compiled into regular code
>by read-time expansion.
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Are you making a semantic point, or arguing
on the basis of implementation-specific per-
formance?  If the latter, please be aware
that the Tcl community is actively investi-
gating dramatic speedups of [eval].
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