Re: The programming languages superorganism (Re: CORBA, A big boost for Python?)

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From: Vladimir Alexiev
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00

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In article <33D8BBB5.9868B8AD@4mate.hr> Smiljan Grmek <smi@4mate.hr> writes:

> * The 'official' scripting language will be JavaScript 
Yeah right. Javascript is a crippled language not much better than VB. 

> (for instance Sun (!) is endorsing it),
Big deal. FSF promotes Guile, which is IMHO a much more reasonable approach
(including the possibility to run several scripting languages, one
Scheme-based, another C-like, on the same scripting engine).

> It is tacked on the Java craze which gives it a lot of free promotion.
Not everyone buys on this. Javascript has nothing in common with Java, except
for the name (which is therefore a misnomer).

> * JavaScript will take quite a bit of Python's market share both being
> objectified
Ever heard of perl5?

> * Tcl/Tk will remain the lovable muddle they are - glue code
While Tcl is an abomination, Tk is a pretty little thing for doing GIUs.
There's PerlTk, PythonTk...

> fondly remember the agony of choosing between Python and tickle which was
> resolved by a 2x speed increase in 8.0
Which brought Tcl speed within an order of magnitude of Python and Perl ;-)

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From: Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: The programming languages superorganism (Re: CORBA, A big boost for Python?)
Date: 1997/07/25
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