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Why is tcl broken?

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at news.hex.net
Wed Jul 14 22:03:53 EDT 1999 
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:37:22 GMT, Garrett G. Hodgson
<garry at research.att.com> wrote: 
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:41:59 GMT, William Tanksley
>> <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
>> >(although I am curious as to whether an indent/dedent based syntax might
>> >be amusing in Lisp).
>> 
>> That would provide opportunity for the implementation to be criticized
>> inanely by *absolutely everyone.*
>> 
>> Not only those that see Lisp as "too many parens," but also those that
>> knee-jerk into thinking that Python must be worthless due to
>> "indentation-sensitivity."
>
>if you could only add in the required use of all combinations of
>[$&@_;{}] as well, you might have the perfect language for flamebait.

You mean I *forgot* to indicate that the type of each object needs to
be attributed with its unique punctuation?

How forgetful of me.

defun myfunc
   let
       name  @_[1]
       dest  @_[2]
     if
        exist-p $dest
	print "$name" >> *dest
        error (string-append "Error: " $dest" " does not exist!\n")
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