Re: new sysinstall

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> 
> Combine the two, and you have a system that has pretty interesting properties,
> embedded GUI development within a modern OOP enviroment, TK/TCL sucks. Don't

Having used Perl, Tcl, and Python all quite extensively, I have to throw
my weight pretty behind the Python advocates. I believe that Tcl is too
minimal, keeping substantial amounts of state around is rather painful.
In order to get full use of it you really need a number of add-ons
such as incr Tcl and TclX. Python by itself is a much more complete
solution. Until Perl 6 arrives, the one real advantage I see perl as
having is the sheer momentum behind it, both in terms of developers who
know it and the number of modules written for it.

I like the fact that Python has a language definition. Perl's language 
definition is the implementation. The only people I know who really 
oppose Python are those who have never used it. Some people have a 
harder time learning new languages than others. At the university I had 
to use at least a half dozen different languages for different purposes,
so I'm not representative. However, I was comfortable writing a 6kloc 
application of moderate complexity in it, having never used it before, 
after a day or two of writing toy programs in it.

My two cents.


				-Kip