points by DonHopkins 4 years ago

Whereas TCL was a beautiful and perfect implementation of a very silly idea.

Remember in 1994 just before Java, when Sun hired TCL's developer John Ousterhout, then unilaterally announced that TCL would be the official scripting language of web browsers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/index.shtml

And that triggered RMS into posting his controversial "Why you should not use TCL" announcement, which kicked off the Great TCL War of 1994:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025218

https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/

"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -Andrew Back

https://twitter.com/9600/status/90729345307521024?lang=en