On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> I believe the state of the art is not to use tcl.  :-)
> I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go.
>
> Russ
>

Sure, tcl isn't as popular as Go right now.

Still, tcl is appealing in some ways.

http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html

Was wondering if Go could be summarized as Plan 9 in language-space.

(Ready... aim... fire)

It seems like Plan 9 already "got it right" in the systems realm.

(Arguments against Ousterhout's dichotomy, fire away)

Seems like Plan 9 and tcl/tk would complement each other well.

Also, this is somewhat unrelated, but I was wondering whether each Go
executable contains the garbage collector.  (It must, it seems, but just
checking).

 - Leonard