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by anon on Tue 15th Apr 2003 18:33 UTC

Looks like the choice of Tcl (over, say Python) is worth questioning. RMS believed it was a limited language and a bad foundation:

Maybe Tcl has caught up and become stronger, or it might be good for this domain. But I wonder if systems coders just make bad choices when building applications. For example, Hubbard's criticism of Python is weird; I've never known anyone to have problems with whitespace. Can anyone maintain code where the indentation isn't aligned?

The rest of what he says is fine; no doubt Tcl has a longer history being embedded in apps, and he says it really was a subjective choice. I just wonder if systems guys have a blindspot.