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:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
: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)?

Yes, it was in his later followup.

: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.

I wish I still had his followup posting.

--tom
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