1994-10-05 - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl

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From: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
To: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Message Hash: 5a5e3c9e8160df7a168ca6d77ebd3e9d42a6aa437154ad43a8c00a19d5f6bd42
Message ID: <199410051827.NAA18355@pentagon.io.com>
Reply To: <199410050855.BAA25288@netcom2.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-10-05 18:28:11 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 11:28:11 PDT

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From: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 11:28:11 PDT
To: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Subject: Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl
In-Reply-To: <199410050855.BAA25288@netcom2.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199410051827.NAA18355@pentagon.io.com>
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Harry Bartholomew writes:
>     On gnu.announce of 9/23, he [Stallman] writes "Why you should not use
>     Tcl". 

Ah yes, RMS's drive-by flaming...

Thus setting of one of the more amusing "My language is better than your
language" holy flame wars of the year.  Tcl/tk is here and in widespread
use, wishing it were otherwise isn't going to change reality.  The only
good thing about the entire thread was that it brought python, which does
have a bigint/mpz module built into it, to the attention of a few more
people.  Lets get back to something useful...

jim

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• 1994-10-05 (Wed, 5 Oct 94 01:56:35 PDT) - Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl - bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
  • 1994-10-05 (Wed, 5 Oct 94 06:53:19 PDT) - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl - Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
  • 1994-10-05 (Wed, 5 Oct 94 11:28:11 PDT) - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl - mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
    • 1994-10-05 (Wed, 5 Oct 94 12:34:07 PDT) - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl (crypto reference) - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
      • 1994-10-06 (Thu, 6 Oct 94 07:12:43 PDT) - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl (crypto reference) - Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
        • 1994-10-07 (Thu, 6 Oct 94 18:38:09 PDT) - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl (crypto reference) - Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>