scripting language newbie - compatibility

[Martijn Faassen]

Paul Duffin <pduffin at hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
[snip]
> Actually you can generate byte compiled versions of Tcl which you can
> distribute but you need to use a commercial package called TclPro to
> do that. It is certainly not as easy as Python but pre byte compiling Tcl
> code is not as useful as pre compiled Python code because of Tcl's dynamic
> nature.

How would Tcl be more dynamic than Python? (you seem to be 
implying this) And how does a language's dynamic nature stop it from
being (usefully) byte-compiled?

Perhaps you mean Tcl is more dynamic on the syntactic level somehow?

Regards,

Martijn
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