Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed

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From: Stephen J Bevan
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 12:20

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In article <398tet$9lp@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:
   ... A significant challenge will be for the
   FSF to implement this great extension language and then provide a generic
   API so that people building things don't HAVE to use it, so that they
   could in fact, if they desired, used tcl or ksh or rexx or whatever.  If
   they don't do that, then it does seem to me that they've fallen into the
   same ticklish trap that rms was complaining about: taking away choice by
   locking in the extension language to the app.

Was RMS complaining about that (perhaps he was and I just didn't see it)?
I thought the original complaint was not that a single extension
language was being promoted, only that the language being promoted
(TCL) wasn't up to snuff in his opinion.

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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
Date: 05 Nov 1994 12:20:04 GMT
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