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>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:
In article <395p66$2j4@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:

TC> At the risk of repeating myself, I'll state that in this
TC> community, only technical criteria matter.  Politics do not drive
TC> the technical, but vice versa.  To see it as otherwise is to fight
TC> a losing battle.  Until gnu script appears, it's vaporware of a
TC> purely political nature, and just so much hype and hormones.  Once
TC> it does, it has the potential of being a technical wonder and
TC> filling some gaping niche (which most of us can't see), at which
TC> point it will be judged on its technical merits.

* The hero of Perl, the advocate of the `anti-elitist' language, is
  now upset that GNU would dare propose an alternative substrate
  for extention languages. 

* But he reminds us that, apparently, the, hackers,
  engineers, and Computer Scientists among us can not comprehend
  anything but `technical criteria'. 

* Yet, as Scheme is, apparently, an `elitist' language, we shouldn't
  even CONSIDER of any merit it might have.  Certainly no more
  than Perl!  But wait a minute, I thought that Perl wasn't about
  notions of abstract superiority, but usefulness.  [hint: sounding
  a little political (gasp) there Tom, best be careful.]

* Okay, now we see this is confusing, so the
  only thing left to do is throw up some FUD.  Did you know that 
  Gel is out to stop you from implementing and using languages
  like Perl and Python?!  Yes it is true!