From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T22:09:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

Joao Pedrosa ha scritto:
> 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.


I may be wrong, but as a "wannabe Tcler" I can think of some things in 
tclland:
- the builtin in event loop
- the tcl vfs
- starkit/starpack/tclkit
- they seem to have a great care on version compatibility/interoperability
- the ability to trace variable seem very interesting :)