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On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:26:33PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Larry has told a similar story about the advantages of using a "dead"
> language like Tcl for Bitkeeper, since he didn't have to deal with
> gratuitous version skew problems caused by backwards incomaptible
> changes in Perl or Python.  

Well, we also made very substantial changes to the Tcl source tree,
resulting in http://little-lang.org which tosses Tcl's tortured 
"can't decide if I'm lisp or not" syntax in favor of something 
that looks like a super pleasant superset of C.