From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T06:34:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby approved

Phil Tomson ha scritto:

>>- the tcl vfs
> 
> 
> But aren't we moving in that direction now that open can take URLs?

sure, but, say, how do we add support for new stuff?
I'd like to avoid overriding Kernel::open every time?
Possibly just using URI#open, but then, how do I expand it?
And what about Dir ? (not great problems, but the more the merrier :)


>>- they seem to have a great care on version compatibility/interoperability
>>- the ability to trace variable seem very interesting :)
> 
> 
> Can you elaborate?

well, some times ago I stumbled upon
http://wiki.tcl.tk/285
and I also noticed that tcl has something built-in akin to rubygems:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/Tcl-Tk_docs/tcl8.0a1/package.n.html


> None of the items you mentioned are core language features per se (except 
> maybe the last one).  They are more like add-ons.  Some of them are 
> 'cultural'.  Certainly we can learn from something like starkit.  But as 
> far as the language I'd rather develop in goes - I definately prefer 
> developing in Ruby as opposed to Tcl.
> 
> ...but YMMV.

oh, no, I definitely agree with you on the whole line :)