From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T21:52:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

Hi,

> I can tell you that for a lot of people the answer has been and
> continues to be "yes", they would want to do something substantial
> in Tcl.  And yes, they have been quite successful at it.

I'm curious about what you consider strong points for Tcl in
comparison with Ruby. See, we are open to ideas and other languages.
Many of us have been using many languages since a long time ago. :-)
The main "drawback" that I see in Ruby in comparison to other
languages is that Ruby is OO and this leads to some indirections when
reading someone else's code. Other desktop programming languages may
use less indirections (OO), which is good as it may simplify the first
impact of understanding a code listing. Visual development tools may
use an OO programming language, though I think it's too hard to
develop such tools for free. :-)

Cheers,
Joao