> Anyway, I'm sorry if that sounded arrogant. I should have added: "most > people I talked with about that". :) I've met lots of persons who think that > script languages are "toy languages", which is not justified by the current > state of the art (http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html).
He states initially and in closing that scripting languages and "system programming languages" (C, C++, ...Java) do and should complement each other. The remainder of the article is largely a head-to-head comparison of Tcl and C/C++ solely in the areas where Tcl's strengths come through. Tcl's GUI code is compared directly with the Win32 API and MFC, and the 25-fold expansion in code blamed directly on the strong typing in C++ (section 3). It is written by the creator of Tcl, whose reputation relies in part upon the success of Tcl. It is hosted on his personal website. To be entirely fair, the author makes some good points. It's unfortunate that he then undermines these by wildly exaggerating his claims by so blatantly picking and choosing his statistics. -randomnine- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
