I apoligize for the perhaps poor choice of words. I wasn't bashing tcl in general, but only meant that there seems to be a fairly large sentiment that it doesn't belong in the interface between client and server processes.

-s




On Apr 16, 2010 9:02 PM, errordeveloper@gmail.com <errordeveloper@gmail.com> wrote:

i think by calling Tcl a garbage you are certainly provoking a flame war.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:46:44PM -0400, Spencer Russell wrote:
> Hey List.
>
> Just came across Zen Garden:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/
>
> Seems like the RJDJ crew is re-implementing PD in C++, in it's full
> object-oriented glory.
>
> I'm excited about the idea of a more object-oriented approach, and
> especially with the idea of ditching all the Tk/Tcl garbage, but I
> don't really see the utility of re-implementing all the DSP graph
> code.
>
> I haven't looked at the ZenGarden code at all yet though, so maybe
> they're doing a lot of borrowing where it makes sense?
>
> Maybe we can talk about this interesting development without a flame
> war? Unlikely.
>
> -s
>
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