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

[Bruce Stephens]

Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> Does tcl have *any* redeeming features?

It has a test suite, and manpages for every command and C function
(well, perhaps not every externally visible function, but pretty much
every one that you might want to call).  And (once upon a time), it
was unusually portable, and had Tk, which made it possible to write
functional (if not particularly pretty) GUIs that worked on Unix and
Windows.

It also (now) has reasonable performance, and (as far as I know,
anyway), reasonable character set stuff.  And it still has fairly
comprehensive documentation and the test suite.

It lacks things like closures (its syntax is just a bit too "simple",
and can fairly quickly become confusing).