From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.) Date: 14 Nov 1992 23:31:16 GMT
In article <1992Nov13.022712.16069@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
: Why TCL? Why not Perl? Two reasons:
:
: - TCL is much smaller and was designed from the beginning to be embedded
: into programs.
:
: Perl is more like what I said about Basic-Plus above. It's large
: and while it can be embedded, it looks hard to do so.
It'll be quite easy to embed Perl 5. There's no question that Perl
will be larger than TCL though, at least until they make TCL do
everything that Perl does, and as efficiently... :-)
: - TCL is not subject to the GNU Public Liscense (GPV) while Perl is.
: IMHO the GPV is not terribly conducive to writing & *selling*
: commercial applications. RMS sure paints a rosy picture of what Might Be
: but I don't buy into its entirety.
Perl is not subject to the GPL if you choose instead to distribute it
under the Artistic License, which addresses many of these concerns.
A number of outfits are selling Perl applications, including NetLabs.
This is definitely a non-problem.
Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com