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: Tom Christiansen
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 17:31

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:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
:
:I doubt that a clean Scheme version would be much, if any, more complex.
:As you can see, the resulting Tcl makefile is just as readable and
:maintainable as the original. Why look, Tcl is now a declarative language!
:Nope... but the metalanguage put together from this subset of Tcl *is*.

tcl is certainly better for making new little languages than perl is.
it's because it doesn't define syntax much, and because it uses braces for
single quoting.  it's just not good for large applications.

--tom
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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data.
 Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
Date: 4 Nov 1994 17:31:55 GMT
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