From: John P. Looney (Kate) (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Thu 13 Jul 2000 - 11:38:10 IST
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 06:21:26PM +0100, Smelly Pooh mentioned:
> > No - I don't like C++ - I've been using incr TCL (OO TCL) a lot this
> > year, and love it. When I'm writing C, I always write in an OO manner..
>
> I'm not a big fan of TCL, I hate its string philosophy, I hate the way it
> evaluates expressions, I just hate its overall structure. I never stuck with
> it long enough to graduate to incr TCL though, is that a big difference?
Not big enough if you don't like TCL to start with ;)
> > Exactly. I don't like telling people "have the interpreter" etc.
> Yes but instead you'll be telling them, have this hardware and this OS (and
> possibly OS versions too if there were a recent binary format change such as
> a.out -> elf, or library versions such as the glibc changes)
Hmm. True. But I like the choice. Really what I'd love is something like
a C/C++/TOM interpreter, so you can have the best of both worlds.
Kate
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The words of the unwary are apt to cause needless pain and bloody violence.
- Zen Master Greg
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