10 Jan
2022
10 Jan
'22
1:28 a.m.
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.