In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote:
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>>Tcl's maturity advantage is tiny--*maybe* two years. Both began at
>>the end of the '80s. There've been close to two decades since to
>>obscure any initial leads.
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>The difference is more significant than that. Tcl started in 1987, but
>Python's history doesn't begin until the early 1990s, unless you're
>counting ABC as well.
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We agree it was ambiguous. It was only in 1988 that John Ousterhout
started *using* Tcl, and '89 when he first gave source to early adopters
<URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/1721 >.
Both Tcl and Python have covered a LOT of territory since then.
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