New/old programming language making a splash

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:16:12PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> I use tcl/tk for small gui programs to interface to hardware. It is very 
> easy to write a functional gui in 200 lines of code or less (someties 20 
> lines are enough). One must remember that entire software suites (like 
> vtcl - a rad gui builder) are written entirely in tcl. So it is a 
> powerful language. Python is also on my 'to be done list'. For now, both 
> tcl and python are installed 'by default' with base distributions (not 
> only on linux, but also *bsd etc).

tcl is NOT installed on Debian by default (as nothing has a use for it),
and while python isn't either, at least it is often installed since some
useful system tools are written in it on Debian.

Lennart Sorensen
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