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:-> In comp.lang.misc, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
:Tom, much as RMS comes across as dogmatic and his message is always at
:least partly political, I've yet to seem him trying to force anyone to
:do anything.  

It's going to be interesting.  Much that comes out of the FSF is a
blessing -- like gcc and gdb.   rms did post that one problem with using
tcl as an extension language was that you then couldn't use anything *but*
tcl (with its commensurate shortcomings as a "proper" general-purpose
programming language) for an extension language.  Surely it would be
better to give people a choice.  That's probably true: after all, the UNIX
kernel doesn't insist you use C.  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.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com


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