Python advocacy

[Vetle Roeim]

[ Paul rants about Java and C++ ;) ]

* Paul Prescod
> I've actually been told that it is a feature of TCL that it is
> inefficient because that helps you to know when to switch to C. TCL is
> hard to scale because it is poorly designed, not because TCL people,
> given an honest choice, would choose it be that way. Unfortunately we
> are seldom presented with an honest choice. Things are the way they are
> and we presume that there are fundamental reasons for that. 

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.
 

vr