[TCLCORE] Re: Notes about Perl6 ideas - good to read

[Brent W. <we...@aj...>]

I'm probably and old man here, but I think we can revitalize Tcl without
breaking backwards compatibility.  In fact, enough incompatibility could
really hurt us.  We've finally got a stable C API through stubs - it seems
a shame to make gratuitous changes to "clean things up".

Now, I'm all for things like Feather and factoring the core so it can
be smaller, but if someone doesn't want a "Tcl-lite" that just eliminates
some features, then they should be able to use Tcl 9 without major pain.
I'd probably also live with a binary-incompatibilty but source-compatibilty
approach, which is probably necessary if we muck with the Tcl_Obj and
Tcl_ObjType structures.

>>>"Jeffrey Hobbs" said:
 > A Ruby user's perspective on the announced plans:
 > 	http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=651665267
 > 
 > And a more Perl-oriented technical perspective:
 > 	http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/07/perl6.html
 > 
 > These are good notes about planning for a major revision upgrade, most
 > notably that Perl6 plans to break compatability with Perl5, maintaining
 > upwards compatability only via a translation script (that won't guarantee
 > 100% compatability).
 > 
 > Perhaps before we start to worry too much about the nearer term but not
 > ambitious 8.4, whoever becomes the future Tcl Core Team should focus on
 > Tcl9 and a plan to truly revitalize Tcl.
 > 
 > Jeffrey Hobbs                     Tcl Ambassador
 > hobbs@AjubaSolutions.com          Ajuba Solutions (née Scriptics)
 > 
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