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Ousterhout did some marketing pieces and he stated a lot of random things. http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html There was
by lispm 12y ago
Ousterhout did some marketing pieces and he stated a lot of random things.
http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html
There was some controversy around it at the time...
- bch 12y agoI didn't realize that was a very controversial paper. If the timelines are correct though, that wouldn't have been offending rms yet: > rms: That was not the end of the GNU projects involved with Lisp. Later on around 1995, we were looking into starting a graphical desktop project. [...] > > At the time, TCL was being pushed heavily for this purpose. I had a very low opinion of TCL... -- JOs paper appears to be published 1998, 3 years later, citing papers from 1996. [edit: formatting]
- lispm 12y agoThere were similar earlier claims made by Osterhout. I just picked one which demonstrated the topic.