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John Ousterhout retires from Tcl Core Team
- coolestuk 18y agoThanks to the link to 'Tcl the Misunderstood' here last week, I've spent a very interesting week re-appraising Tcl and how I might use it. There's no way I'm going to grok lisp, but Tcl is offering more lisp-like facilities than most other languages.
- pmarin 18y agoyou are welcome ;)
- davidw 18y agoThis is more dotting the i's and crossing the t's rather than actual news. He hasn't been active in Tcl development since he sold his dot com years ago. I guess what's interesting about Tcl in that way is that it's not a benevolent dictatorship like the other scripting languages are... or at least I think of them as such. How are Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, etc... run in terms of decision making these days?
- anthonyrubin 18y agoPython uses PEPs: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ The first few describe some of the processes used. AFAIK Guido still has the final say.
- pmarin 18y agoI think the different is that in Tcl there is a defined Core team (http://tcl.tk/community/coreteam/ http://tcl.tk/community/coreteam/) who mantain the code while Guido delegates in others. I don't know which is better although in the last years the core team have done a great job with tcl/tk.
- mst 18y agoPerl 5 is handled by the perl5-porters mailing list; basically, there's a Pumpking per perl5 major version (currently the active ones are 8, 10, and the 11 branch that will eventually become 12) who has final authority, with a set of committers who are generally expected to know when they can JFDI and when to check, and lots of bikesheddi^Whelp from the mailing list subscribers and denizens of irc.perl.org #p5p The usual combination of dictatorship, oligarchy and democracy, basically :)