On Dec 30, 4:44 pm, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote: > You can build web servers, database tools, FTP clients, test > suite/automation tools, chat clients, and drivers of other CLI tools > with Tcl, just to name a few.
Ok, thats swell. But do you have any real examples, links, or some evidence of this? Or are we witnessing more wishful thinking? > In terms of what can be done with the > language, I'm not aware of anything that can be done in Python that > can't be done in Tcl. Again the proof is in the pudding my friend! > The size of Python's community and its large standard library are an > advantage over Tcl. Yes, go on... > While Tcl is technically capable of many things, > it's often easier to find a Python library already coded for specific > functions--for instance, while Tcl has XML parsing and can parse RSS, it > doesn't have a rich library like feedparser all wrapped up and ready to go. Thanks, well i must say that it it getting easier to win this argument. > I find that Tcl's "everything is a string" representation offers a more > flexible and expressive approach in certain contexts. Maybe but that is hardly going to "woo" the masses is it? > Tcl's "exec" > function makes interacting with external tools simpler than os.popen and > subprocess--I can get the output of a command with less code. Newsflash!, NewsFlash!, Python has an exec function. Am i missing something here? :) > Of course, this is partly a matter of taste. Well your posts so far are leaning heavily that way Kevin :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
