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In article <395rlr$3eh@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

[...]
   If in fact RMS does not want to stop us from writing software that uses
   other extensions languages *EVEN FOR GNU SOFTWARE*, then fine -- and vice
   versa.  Remember, this isn't just anti-tcl; it's anti anything that
   doesn't turn into lisp or scheme.  If we see edicts mandating rewriting
   working any software that uses something other than gnuscript, like
   dejagnu using tcl, mailagent or clip using perl, the new (perl) debugger
   using tk, or various products that employ ptyhon, then it's not fine at
   all.  It's a useless waste of time driven by political pressure, just as
   much as demanding that gnuscript be used on gnu software would also be.

   When all the huffing and puffing is done, only technical and convenience
   considerations will (or at least, should) prevail.  Freedom of choice is
   something that we MUST NOT SURRENDER.  If that's not in danger, but just
   that RMS has pre-announced a better scripting language (for his version of
   better, but perhaps not the rest of ours), then fine -- we're happy to
   have another choice.  But it certainly didn't seem that way.
[...]

No one is forcing you to do anything.  Surrender freedom of choice?
Only if you let someone else make your decisions for you.  Does
someone have you in a hammer lock?  Use what you like.

RMS wants a better scripting language for GNU.  And GNU is free.  If
you don't like his language, you're _free_ to use anything else.  If
that software doesn't become "official" GNU software, so what?  What's
to stop you from using it?  RMS is proposing a standard.  That doesn't
mean anyone has to accept it.

   I still haven't been convinced that anything is broken, and judging from 
   the email responses I've received from individuals flamebashed into 
   avoiding posting, neither have they.

Does something have to be broken for people to search for a better
way?
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Kevin K. Lewis               | My opinions may be unreasonable
lewikk@aud.alcatel.com       | but such is the voice of inspiration