Newbie switching from TCL

[Alex Martelli]

"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
news:3799AC8F18F40B22.120B7952059DF9AB.F280265F91BC2016 at lp.airnews.net...
    [snip]
> At the same time, Tcl is relatively isolated as a language in
> its emphasis of event handling.  Most prominent languages today
> promote threading as a multi-processing mechanism.  This popu-
> larity in itself constitutes an argument for Python's threading.

"And if everybody else was jumping off a cliff, would you jump
off a cliff, too"?-)

(P.S.: Visual Basic does allow threading [reluctantly, and only
in recent releases], but event-handling is definitely at its core;
considering that it probably has more users than Tcl, Python, and
any one other scripting language you can name put together, it
might be considered "prominent"...).


Alex