Re: How does xotcl compare to ruby?

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
GN wrote:

On the other hand, if the itcl community is happy with itcl, why to
force this into a new implementation? The existing Tcl extensions won't
stop working, only because new code is implemented.

True. Mind you, one of my motivations is to clear up the mess of ad hoc
OO systems that are springing up in various pure-script extensions
(starting with the core's own http package!) Tcllib has many different
such things; they're a mess and they won't base on top of any non-core
OO system because of redistribution requirements. Like this, at least
*some* of the swamp can be drained.

Your wrong here. As Tcllib also includes SNIT (and the much less used
stooop), some packages use snit. Not all or most of them, but some do.
So the swamp is already draining and core oo just makes the code faster.

Michael
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