[Epo-marketing] Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong - how does this apply to the Perl community?

[Gabor Szabo]

In response to my blog post about the Perl Ecosystem (
http://szabgab.com/blog/2010/03/1269995499.html )
Claudio has commented a link of a blog post "Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong"
( http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-wrong )

I think this is a very important article to read for every Perl programmer,
especially those interested in promotion or marketing. A few quotes:

"Indeed, my thesis is that Tcl and Tk's problems primarily stem from
economic and marketing (human) factors, rather than any serious
defects with the technology itself."

"It [Tcl] has a lot of impressive features; many more than most people realize,"
with my emphasize on "more than most people realize"

"have a fairly 'fat' distribution with lots of useful goodies."
Strawberry Professional is a good response to this on Windows. IMHO we
need something like that on other OS-es as well.

"there are also a lot of negatives associated with the Tcl and Tk 'brands'"

"Don't isolate yourself: Tcl and Tk stopped appearing at a lot of the
open source conferences..."

Gabor