The Tcl War (vs. Guile Scheme)
The Tcl War

    

In late September, 1994, Richard Stallman of the Free Software
Foundation posted an article to comp.lang.tcl and several
other newsgroups titled Why you should not use Tcl.
Predictably, a flamewar ensued, which lasted in one form or another
for almost a month (until it was pre-empted by the
GNU project's announcement of plans for its own
extension language, later dubbed GUILE).

Like most flamewars, there was much heat and little light.  However,
there was some light, and as the maintainer of the Tcl
bibliography (which attempts to be very thorough), I took it upon
myself to archive the interesting posts, partly to give the
bibliography entry something to point at, and also to provide a
balanced perspective: it seemed likely, even at the beginning, that
the GNU project would archive Stallman's original article and
redistribute it without the many reasonable rebuttals which appeared.

Although I tried to take a neutral perspective, and saved articles
espousing diverse points of view, this selection unavoidably reflects
my own prejudices.  Included are a few articles which contain nothing
but a snappy comeback.  I missed a few important articles, such as one
by Bill Janssen which started an entire lengthy subthread.  And
naturally, all of my own posts are included.

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Starting: Sun 25 Sep 1994 - 06:14:14 CST
Ending: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 01:02:03 GMT
Messages: 68

 Why you should not use Tcl Richard Stallman

 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Barry Merriman
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Dan Connolly
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Ron Natalie
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Dirk Grunwald
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Robert DeLine
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Drew Justin Asson
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Rob Savoye
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Thomas Werthmann-Auzinger
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  John Ousterhout
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Peter da Silva
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Robert DeLine
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Mumit Khan
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Peter da Silva
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  T. William Wells
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Mark Harrison
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  George M. Sipe
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Sharon Hopkins
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Tom Christiansen
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Tim Bunce
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Matthias Neeracher
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Glenn Vanderburg
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Tom Christiansen
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Wayne Throop
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Jeff Dalton
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Barry Merriman
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Tim Pierce
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Barry Merriman
 Re: Why you should not use Tcl  Glenn Vanderburg

 Re: Comments in Tcl (Was: Why you should not use Tcl) Peter da Silva
 Comments on "Why you should not use Tcl" Adam Sah

 Re: Comments on "Why you should not use Tcl"  Wayne Throop

 Re: Look into libscheme - was Re: Why you should not use Tcl Tom Christiansen

 Re: Look into libscheme - was Re: Why you should not use Tcl Andrew McCallum

 Tcl has (has not) got arrays ?!?!?! Tom Lord
 Critical review of Stk [Was: Why you should not use Tcl] Dan Connolly
 Re: extensibility (was: Why you should not use Tcl) Ian Moor

 Re: extensibility (was: Why you should not use Tcl) Wayne Throop
 Re: extensibility (was: Why you should not use Tcl) Kevin B. Kenny

 Re: Tcl/Lisp/Python: A "User" point of view John Ousterhout
 Integration of libscheme and Tcl (announce) Kathi Fisler
 Re: An alternative to Tcl, python, etc... Mario J. Silva

 Re: An alternative to Tcl, python, etc... Josef Dalcolmo

 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing bruce@liverpool.ac.uk

 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Thomas Funke
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Brent Welch
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Glenn Vanderburg
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Niels P. Mayer
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Wayne A. Christopher
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Larry W. Virden
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Larry W. Virden
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Robert Sanders
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Tom Tromey
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Robert Withrow
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Peter da Silva
 Re: Why Tcl is a Bad Thing Steven D. Majewski

 Tcl does not support linked lists- technical commentary. Adam Sah
 linked lists in Tcl, part II. Adam Sah

 Re: linked lists in Tcl, part II.  Peter da Silva
 Re: linked lists in Tcl, part II.  Peter da Silva



Last message date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 01:02:03 GMT
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