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Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl

To: [email protected] (Harry Bartholomew)
Subject: Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl
From: [email protected] (Jim McCoy)
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:27:49 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Harry Bartholomew" at Oct 5, 94 01:55:53 am
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Harry Bartholomew writes:
>     On gnu.announce of 9/23, he [Stallman] writes "Why you should not use
>     Tcl". 

Ah yes, RMS's drive-by flaming...

Thus setting of one of the more amusing "My language is better than your
language" holy flame wars of the year.  Tcl/tk is here and in widespread
use, wishing it were otherwise isn't going to change reality.  The only
good thing about the entire thread was that it brought python, which does
have a bigint/mpz module built into it, to the attention of a few more
people.  Lets get back to something useful...

jim

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