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Date: Sun,  9 Oct 2011 19:24:43 +0200
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From: simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:12 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrot=
e:
> On Sun Oct =A09 02:16:11 EDT 2011, pmarin.mail@gmail.com wrote:
>> In 15 years Tcl has been improved a lot, like any other =A0language.
>
> that might not be relevant to ron's point. =A0i think this is almost
> a geometry problem. =A0if 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". =A0the language in question has t=
o
> be improving fast enough relative to the competition to be in the top
> bunch (largest x). =A0if you only plot languages similar to tcl on this l=
ine,
> 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. =A0(although python made the minimum
> segment length much shorter by making python 3 incompatable with 2.)
>
> - erik
>
>