New/old programming language making a splash

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Hiscocks wrote:
> There are some interesting case-histories documented on the Scriptics
> website which show the efficiencies to be gained by using Tcl/Tk to
> prototype a program before coding it in C, or to replace a C program.

Oh, I like Tcl/Tk myself, but I'm afraid it's definitely second-best to
Python for substantial programming.  It simply wasn't designed for the
job, and that's reflected in clumsy syntax and annoying limitations. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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