On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:32:12AM -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > I noticed today that there was a new Tk version out recently, and > my first reaction was "Is there still an active Tcl community?". > > Apparently there is, and they're saying this about Perl: > http://tcl.activestate.com/advocacy/perl.html > > Most of it is horribly untrue. Forgetting about stuff that's a matter > of opinion, there are some unarguable technical lies: > > "Perl does not have a well-developed set of extension APIs; though it > is possible in principle to extend Perl, it is rarely done in > practice."
But "well-developed" *is* a matter of opinion. > "Perl was not designed to be embeddable and it is difficult to use > in this way. Thus, if you would like a scripting language for use > inside an application or device, Tcl is your best bet." So is "difficult". Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/
