Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Robert]

On 2010-12-30 18:12:21 -0500, rantingrick said:

> On Dec 30, 1:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> How to add two numbers in C:
>> 
>> [...snip code example...]
>> 
>> None of the three are exactly clones of each other, but it seems to me
>> that Tcl and Python are quite close in spirit, if not syntax.
> 
> Yes i'll agree to that if you also agree that Python and Perl are the
> same.  Then i "maybe" your "suggestion" holds water, maybe. But you
> forgot to comment on the other big point which is... What language
> would you rather spend your time learning if you only had C and Tcl to
> choose from? If you answer Tcl you are either foolish or just trying
> to win the argument by playing devils advocate, and in that case
> you're even more foolish!
> 
> The moral is that C and Python are far more useful to any programmer
> than Tcl will ever be -- whether you consider them together or apart
> does not matter. Tcl is too limited whereas Python and especially C
> are far more useful in various situations.

I'll bite. Exactly how is Tcl too limited in your view?

-- 
Robert