Re: Opinions? Tcl Python Perl, Virtues/failings

graham.matthews@maths.anu.edu.au
30 Mar 1995 23:17:17 GMT

Ken Manheimer <klm@NIST.GOV> writes:
>Tcl's "typelessness" is a serious issue, and issues of speed are the
>most extremely superficial ramifications of it. The real problem has
>to do with data abstraction - tcl does not adequately provide it
>unless you create your own special extension data types, and then you
>sacrifice the integration benefits that come with native data types.

I agree that Python's data abstraction mechanisms are better than
Tcl's. However there is one small thing I would like to see in
Python (which maybe you can do?), and it would boost the integratedness
of Python. And this thing is to be able to inherit from inbuilt classes.
I wanted to make a sub-class of a file object, but could not it
seems.

graham

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