On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:36:46AM -0600, Sean Rowe wrote:

> I'm trying to argue my somewhat biased opinion that perl is better than 
> tcl.  I want to embed perl in a c program we use because of it's speed 
> and object oriented nature.  They want to use tcl because they don't 
> know perl and are comfortable with tcl.  I'm not as familiar with tcl as 
> I am with perl, so I'm not able to argue my point very well, so we have 
> a 'tastes great...less filling' argument going.  Any experts out there 
> that actually know why perl is/isn't better than tcl?

If "they" only know Tcl and "you" only know Perl, then that's a fairly
strong argument for Tcl, all else being equal (which of course it is
not).

See some very old advocacy arguments at http://www.perl.com/language/versus/

See the Tcl people doing themselves a huge disservice at
http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/perl.html

And some comments at http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/1726
Follow the thread for more.

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