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==History== The dichotomy was fully set out in {{Harvtxt|Ousterhout|1998}}, though Ousterhout had drawn this distinction since at least the design of Tcl (1988), and had stated it publicly at various times. An early episode was "[http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/ The Tcl War]" of late September and October 1994, where [[Richard Stallman]] posted an article critical of Tcl, entitled "Why you should not use Tcl",<ref>{{cite newsgroup |title=Why you should not use Tcl |last=Stallman |first=Richard |date=1994-09-23 |newsgroup=comp.lang.tcl |message-id=9409232314.AA29957@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu |url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.tcl/7JXGt-Uxqag/3JBTj5I43yAJ |access-date=2015-09-13}}</ref> to which Ousterhout replied with an articulation of his dichotomy:<ref>{{cite newsgroup |title=Re: Why you should not use Tcl |last=Ousterhout |first=John |date=1994-09-26 |newsgroup=comp.lang.tcl |message-id=367307$1un@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM |url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.tcl/7JXGt-Uxqag/vQNLEgvjmWsJ |access-date=2015-09-13}}</ref> {{quotation| I think that Stallman's objections to Tcl may stem largely from one aspect of Tcl's design that he either doesn't understand or doesn't agree with. This is the proposition that you should use *two* languages for a large software system: one, such as C or C++, for manipulating the complex internal data structures where performance is key, and another, such as Tcl, for writing small-ish scripts that tie together the C pieces and are used for extensions.}}
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