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From: simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p
Date: Sun,  9 Oct 2011 19:24:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFUsep2T1BXWa3yXJM=pvyx7deYkG-eszz6H_8qaza2OpJ6N8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7181f649ff38e68cc8bcabb1fa40df94@chula.quanstro.net>

wut

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:12 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Sun Oct  9 02:16:11 EDT 2011, pmarin.mail@gmail.com wrote:
>> In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other  language.
>
> that might not be relevant to ron's point.  i think this is almost
> a geometry problem.  if you plot languages in 1997 and late 2011 on the
> "goodness line", it should follow that improving isn't enough to have
> a sufficiently large "goodness factor".  the language in question has to
> be improving fast enough relative to the competition to be in the top
> bunch (largest x).  if you only plot languages similar to tcl on this line,
> i think you get the same result.
>
> in tcl's case, the segment between starting point and today would seem
> to need to be prohibitively long.  (although python made the minimum
> segment length much shorter by making python 3 incompatable with 2.)
>
> - erik
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-09 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09  0:02 L N
2011-10-09  2:31 ` Russ Cox
2011-10-09  3:20   ` L N
2011-10-09  3:30     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-10  9:05   ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-10-10 13:33     ` Paul Lalonde
2011-10-10 13:51       ` simon softnet
2011-10-10 16:57         ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-11  7:50           ` hiro
2011-10-11  8:34             ` L N
     [not found]       ` <CAFUsep0WRifUREf=BuX2hMT85g46pObH-3Q6XFcf82ONOGTeEw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 21:16         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-26 16:45       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-10-09  5:21 ` ron minnich
2011-10-09  6:15   ` pmarin
     [not found]   ` <CAOe8CcYL4J5Uu4MSwpT8bO=4LC7omJ84FDkRy=ZXzq8wNH5iWg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-09 13:12     ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-09 17:24       ` simon softnet [this message]
2011-10-09 23:05         ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-27  7:46 ` Axel Belinfante
2011-10-10 20:55 Winston Kodogo

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