by Mark Roseman - DejaNews: [1]
No big new releases, but some more good discussions this week. The Tcl vs. Perl one I think characterized well how level-headed, practical, and reasonable this community is. Such a shame we haven't had a Stallman post in a while... ;-)
- John Ousterhout fails to dredge up controversy by asking "Why do you hate Perl?" but gets some good arguments for both (thread [2])
- A Tcl vs. Java thread suggests that Tk plus a package like BWidgets would become a good contender with Java's Swing (thread [3])
- A public release of Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 seems imminent (thread [4])
- There was a renewed call for major/minor support in the core (see DN450360922)
- An good introductory discussion on why scripting can be more reliable than systems programming languages. (thread [5])
- Andreas Kupries helpfully catalogs the list extensions offered by various packages (see DN451754046)
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