Re: FYI: german Tcl/Tk-articles on linx-magazin.de

From: Bernd Schmitt (Bernd.Schmitt.News_at_gmx.net)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:34:03 +0100

Cameron Laird wrote:

> Bernd, I can put you in touch with the editor; I know he
> worked hard on that issue. How did it fail you? Was it
> too easy? Too hard? Too specialized, too vague, were
> the topics wrong, was the writing unpleasant, did it lack
> evocative illustrations, ...?

I wrote 2 emails on this to redaktion@linux-magazin.de, because I am
really angry about the tcl/tk part (and somehow about the hole special
mag). I bought the mag in order to get an introduction/overview/idea
about tcl (and perl/python), but it was neither.
The articles gave no short introduction into syntax, but they were
talking about how easy tcl would be (they even mentioned that there are
only 12 main rules to obey, but no word more!) history and other
secondary things. They gave sourcecode without good explanation.
There was no comparision/summary or whatever.

The CD only included (if not booted) only a list of links to the
internet (and by far not the best). It took me 1-2 days to get a much
better list of links and to see a much much better overview.

wikipedia.de is giving a far better introduction and overview about tcl.

I don't want to hurt anybody, but I think they should not have used the
titles they had chosen (quick introduction, understanding concepts).
The articles about the other languages are only a little bit better (the
one about lisp is ok), but overall this mag is worthless regarding to
the promisses it makes.

I expected them to put at least all their own articles regarding to each
language on the cd + free articles from the web + really good links to
the web.

No, to me they were not working serious enough on this special mag, they
had no overall concept. It seems that each author was writing
independent of the others. wikipedia does a far better job.

What would have been perfect for me?
overview and comparision of all 7 languages:
        licencing (gpl, mit, bsd ...)
        concepts (oo, functional, ...)
        availability (plattforms)
        documentation (german (it is a german mag) ...)
        tools (debugger, ide, compiler, ...)
        popularity (user base, internationality, news groups ...)
        reference projects
        speed/length of code (1-3 easy tasks like hello world, sorting)
for each language
        short(!) history,
        short introduction into syntax and concepts
        strength/weakness
        main area of use
        examples
        outlook
        links to free standard books, introductions, further reading

Sorry if this may sound rude.
Bernd

P.S.: I did not receive any answer from linux-mag.

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