In message <9025.1135276310@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, Michael Richardson writes:
I vote for replacing it.
Perhaps NOT with Tcl --- I've done a lot of Tcl embedding, and I'm
generally not satisified with it. I would look at guile, but I don't
know it enough.
I have some doubts about replacing it (but as I am not a nmh developer
I will _not_ vote).
I like mh-format because it is self-contained in MH/nmh. nmh does not
require additional software that is not under the control of the nmh
developers (e.g., Tcl). I like MH because it does not have dependencies
on third party software packages whose future changes are difficult to
guess and/or manage.
I agree, mh-format can be improved, but replacing it with a full-featured
scripting language is a bit overkill, though. We really need a scripting
language as Tcl to provide format strings to nmh commands?
Cheers,
Igor.
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