Why does darwinports developers choose the tcl/tk for darwinports project?

[Kevin Walzer]

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Luc Heinrich wrote:
> On 28 déc. 06, at 00:13, Kevin Ballard wrote:
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> In my very own and personal opinion, Tcl is the single reason why
> MacPorts doesn't get as many external contributions as it should and is
> therefore so awfully slow to evolve. I have tried to dive in the
> MacPorts sources many times, read the Welch book, yadda yadda, and I
> still can't get past 3 or 4 lines of Tcl without giving up in disgust.
> Ok, maybe that's just me but still...

What's wrong with Tcl that makes you "give up in disgust"? It has its
quirks, like any language, but it gets the job done for MacPorts very well.

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