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Obligatory link to Stallman's "Why you should not use Tcl".

http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/0000.html

This set off a war a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.

Edit: This has been downvoted twice now. Could be accident, but could be that people think I'm saying you shouldn't use Tcl. I've never used Tcl and hold no strong opinions about it. I'm simply linking to a piece of usenet history.

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I didn't downvote you, but I didn't upvote you either.

Maybe it is the reaction to doing something cool and having someone post a link to criticism that is peripheral to the project. Maybe some Tclers are a little tired of people continuing to post this particular piece of criticism. Maybe a random few don't care about RMS's opinion. It is like people posting the Tanenbaum / Torvalds thread in every Minix article. It just seems a little mean-spiritted after a while.

Agreed. In particular, it's hardly "obligatory".

Many of those criticisms are completely irrelevant now. The post is from 1994, which means RMS is probably talking about Tcl 7.3, which is worlds apart from Tcl 8.5, the latest official release. People certainly can and have developed large applications in Tcl; Tcl has long since introduced an internal representation to efficiently handle numbers; etc. Posting links like this that are so old and out of date borders on irresponsible, because not everybody will take the time to realize that the criticisms are no longer valid.

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