Re: Why you should not use Tcl
Geoff Lane (zzassgl@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk)
30 Sep 1994 15:18:24 +0100
Barry Merriman (barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu) wrote:
: As for the dual language solution, III:
: This does not seem like a good solution to me! Two language with
: the same capabilities but vastly different syntaxes??? It
: seems like the natural evolution of such a system will be that
: either one language or the other will greatly dominate in
: use---which defeats the purpose of having two, since one becomes
: the defacto standard---or most projects will be written in
: bits and pieces of both, which just means everyone has to know
: all of them, and constantly switch back and forth between
: different languages that do nearly the same thing
: (much like the situation with the various unix shell languages
: these days: sh, csh, tcsh, ksh, bash, rc...).
As I remember the current lisp syntax was created in order to describe the
behaviour of the language in the original paper describing lisp - it was
never intended to be used for real-world programming. Unfortunately the
followup paper describing the `proper' syntax never appeared.
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