Re: Opinions? Tcl Python Perl, Virtues/failings

Jim Holmes (holmes@Xerox.EuroPARC.com)
3 Apr 1995 10:33:31 GMT

danj@netcom.com (Dan Janowski) wrote:
>
> [...] From a coding
> standpoint, the word basis of Tcl operations, as opposed to %^@:
> characters, means that the code is actually readable. Having named
> commands that do operations is a GOOD thing, as opposed to relying on
> non-alpha characters.
>
> [...] Fast, easy to remeber, english coding means less time is spent
> on being clever and more on the idea. Tcl seems to fit this notion more
> than Perl or Python.

{eval [list agree {I find} $Tcl {similar -to $English -too}]}

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