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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
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Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:15:53 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> The shared library (/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0 on my system) is about
> 700KB; not minimal in my book. Compare, for instance, lua --
> /usr/lib/liblua50.so.5 is about 115KB (liblua40 was only 60KB!), and I
> think Tom is aiming even smaller with furth.
I am but, I think I'm going to miss by that metric. Not by much. Not
by more than a random tiny amount. But lua is hard to beat, sizewise.
> Also, of course, tcl sucks big-time as a language...
Entirely the point. The quality of languages is not a subjective
topic although it often seems that way because the objective nature of
that quality is very difficult to discuss. That's part of the reason
that a subset of the Scheme community is so enamored of one another:
we've discovered a common vocabulary for discussing deeps issues that
most people can't even quite recognize are there (even though they
suffer greatly from systems that blow those issues).
-t