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In article <39dr6b$77q@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> :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.

The simple syntax is a common thread among these sorts of languages, whether
lisp-derived or those created out of whole cloth like Forth/Postscript/...
and APL.

Calling quoting "single quoting" is itself pretty revealing.

> it's just not good for large applications.

I'm not talking about large applications. I'm talking about extension
languages. I wouldn't use "make", "nroff", or HTML for large applications
either.
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