Re: Tcl on slashdot...

On Nov 11, 6:44 am, ewilsonm...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

To me "Tcl is simple" should mean easy to learn, write, read and
comprehend.

And is it also your argument, based on the quote for BK, that Visual
BASIC _is_ simple? I mean, that's the illustration that was used to
argue that Tcl is not "simple", originally. Surely you don't propose
that VB is easy to learn, to write, to read, to comprehend? That its
documentation is useful?

Frankly, I don't know any language that would fit your definition of
"simple".

What I do know is that when I had a perl programmer who needed to
write a mid-level application, who had never written code in Tk, I
first provided them with perl/tk information. After several days, they
were confused and frustrated. So I provided them with a copy of Dr.
O's original power point slides. They were coding the Tk application
that day. Turned out they needed to make use of some iwidgets (this
was a half dozen yrs ago or so), so they also learned itcl and
iwidgets, in less time than it had taken them to attempt to learn perl/
tk - another day.


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