Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data. Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Curtis Yarvin
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 08:23

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In article <1994Nov4.224514.16731@cpu.com>,
Gerald W. Lester <gwlester@CAPTAINHOOK.CPU.COM> wrote:

>It is if you design your code/application correctly.  If you want to write
>large monolithic applications where the application runs as one process, no
>tcl is not good.  If you write modular applications where the application
>runs as multiple processes, tcl is good (at least good enough to control an
>oil and gas production facility in the Gulf of Mexico).

Da oil rig!  Boss, da oil rig!

Back when I was at Berkeley, some friends and I used to play the Tcl drinking
game.  You'd go to a talk on Tcl and sit in the back of the room... whenever
anyone mentioned the oil rig, we all had to take a pull off my hip flask.

c
ah those wild grad student days

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Subject: Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data. Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
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