On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> I will not answer that directly ;-) But tcl is a good
>> language for light
>> and medium weight programs. There are several large
>> applications written
>> in tcl out there. And if Python is so good, then why does it have to
>> borrow the gui part of tcl (namely, tk) ?
>
> A library concept and the language used to interface to it are (or: can
> be) two separate things. Python and TCL have littel incommon (except
> they are both interpreted languages) but spme Python guys took what is
> good in tcl/tk and made a Python interface for it.
>
> I agree tcl is good for small programs. I don't think it is good for
> medium size programs.

I disagree. I have 5000+ lines programs working (just be sure to use the 
C-equivalent lines when comparing program sizes. The C-equivalent of 
tcl/tk is between 10:1 and 20:1 lines/lines afaik).

Peter
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