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From: papresco@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper
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In article <5ibkb4$5et$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
>
>In comp.lang.perl.misc, 
>    papresco@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>:Sun is pushing Java more than ever. The reason for their interest in TCL 
>:seems to be this dichtomy between systems programming languages and scripting
>:languages.
>
>What dichotomy?  Repeating something doesn't make it true.  Perhaps you
>missed this brief article I posted last week in response to an article
>in comp.lang.python by jim@ks.uiuc.edu (Jim Phillips).

Someone asked about Sun's reason for promoting Tcl and Java. I wrote what 
Sun's point of view was. You should mail your article to Sun.

 Paul Prescod

