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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: Embedded vs. separate commands
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:04:11 GMT
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- In article <1hn9tvINNqod@agate.berkeley.edu> ouster@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John Ousterhout) writes:
- >The votes so far indicate that there is a strong preference for the
- >"embedded" approach ... over
- >the "separate commands" approach ... 37 to 8.
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- Gee, John, you told us not to post a thousand votes from SCO... :-)
-
- Seriously though, pretty much everything in Extended Tcl was added because
- we needed some capability that wasn't already there in Tcl. So here's a
- case where a capability of TclX (FP math functions et al) is once again
- brought into the baseline (as were files, arrays, and so forth), so the
- capability is now present, so TclX no longer needs its FP functions, except
- perhaps for backwards compatibility.
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- As long as the capability is there, I am not going to get too hung up over
- the differences... And there were some good points made for the embedded
- approach, although I still predict insubstantial performance differences
- and am still a bit nervous about adding new syntax.
-
- Happy new year, everyone.
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