Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:56:40AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Pierce T.Wetter III" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Anyways, what about TCL? I seem to remember the interpreter being
> > pretty minimal.
> 
> The shared library (/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0 on my system) is about
> 700KB; not minimal in my book.  Compare, for instance, lua --
> /usr/lib/liblua50.so.5 is about 115KB (liblua40 was only 60KB!), and I
> think Tom is aiming even smaller with furth.
> 
> Also, of course, tcl sucks big-time as a language...

And having had to debug the bloody thing before now, it's a terrible
library, and a lousy interpreter.

Does tcl have *any* redeeming features?

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