Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-23 Thread Mark K. Mellis
On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:15 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > It's possible to write fifteen-argument functions in any language. C: > > g( 7, 7, 500, 200, "foo bar", 0x24, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x24 ); That function invocation only has fifteen args if you are counting in base 6... (couldn't resist, sorry

Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-23 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Bill Maas writes: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:25 -0500, Andy Michaels wrote: >> Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl? > > Ignorance breeds contempt;) Let me attempt to give a fairer answer. A determined programmer can write write-only code in any language. But some lend themselves more to i

Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-22 Thread Erik M. Cummings
Bill, Andy, et al, From my perspective, it's not really hate, it's definitely a PREFER LESS. The logic structures are the things that are annoying to me, as I spend most of my time in Perl. I'm familiar with and use quite a few different languages, and would just say that the TCL co

Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-22 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Andy, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:25 -0500, Andy Michaels wrote: > Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl? Ignorance breeds contempt;) Bill > -a Tcl hacker > > *sniff* > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Bill Maas wrote: > > Hi Graham, > > > > how about using different machines for diffe

Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-21 Thread Andy Michaels
Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl? -a Tcl hacker *sniff* On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi Graham, > > how about using different machines for different purposes? As an > alternative to "burning a few boards for the sake of the experiment" or > "having pairs of boxes