From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2004-01-23T16:54:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Questions on Rite and embedding

In article <6214648293.20040123011616@scriptolutions.com>, Lothar
Scholz wrote:

> I can only wish that Matz take a look at deepth look at TCL before
> doing anything. TCL/TK is from the implementation (not from the
> language) still lightyears ahead from ruby.

IIRC Matz is a self-confessed language nut, so I am sure he has
already looked at Tcl.

Tcl embeds well because it was originally designed to be an embeddable
component, not a fully-fledged stand-alone language.  This has made it
hard for it to evolve from the former into the latter.  Any language
that becomes very popular has growing pains, but some of Tcl's initial
design decisions (eg. every value is a string, and so no value is a
reference, no value is a first-class structure and no value is a
closure) have IMHO proved particularly hard to outgrow.

Cheers, 

Jeremy