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
>
>
next prev parent 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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