Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >It would have been nice to put in a blurb for some of the cool stuff > >planned for 8.5. That way people could see that things are *happening* > >in the Tcl world and Tcl is moving forward language wise. > > > >That doesn't take away from the article though. It was just a thought. > . > . > . > Robert, though "just a thought", I want to say a few words in response: > you're wrong. Or, you're ambiguous: I think you're saying, "To appro- > priately infect readers with the enthusiasm for Tcl that you (and I) > think they deserve to have, it is necessary to anticipate the objection > that Tcl is 'dormant' and convince them otherwise." > > Here's the problem: a magazine needs to be written for its readers, > rather than its authors or any other actors (from a business stand- > point, content ultimately is designed to serve advertisers, but that > rather dreary reality is a distraction we'll ignore for now). Lynn's > job was to profile the languages. To keep her scope manageable, she > did not address the cultures of the different languages. As I under- > stand her thoughts, she doesn't try to help the languages, but rather > help the readers. > > It feels as though I'm hitting this tack of a point with a too-heavy > sledgehammer. I sure don't want to offend you, Robert; I *do* want > to take the opportunity to distinguish the different motivations afoot > here. While I think you already understand this, I'll make it explicit: > Lynn deserves our encouragement for her openness to ideas like use of > scripting languages, not our censure for failing to go far enough.
The size of you hammer was okay with me. It takes a lot to offend me and having delt with people from this group I know that most of the stuff is constructive in nature anyway. : ) I did take the opportunity to submit the overall article to OSNews with an extra link to the Tcl article. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
