Python advocacy

[Vetle Roeim]

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> > Although I dislike Tcl, I believe it was not designed to scale. Try
> > reading ``The Tcl War'' <url:http://www.vanderburg.org/Tcl/war/>.
> > Basically, RMS complained about the limitations of Tcl, and various
> > people flame him and each other. But Osterhout explains the design
> > principles of Tcl.
> 
> To be fair, the "Tcl War" thread is REALLY old and Tcl has advanced rapidly
> since then and has addressed pretty much all of it's early shortcomings.  It
> is now up to version 8.3 and supports Unicode, advanced regular expressions,
> OOP, bytecode compilation, complex GUI's etc.  You can find more recent
> information here: http://dev.scriptics.com/advocacy/

as I understand many features are a little bit hackish (f.ex. OO), but
this may just be FUD I've heard.



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