On 2010-12-31 23:57:24 -0500, Adam Skutt said:

On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote:
It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it
wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the
Tcl community a lot) has a strange fixation with not reinventing the
wheel, even when the wheel would be in Tcl and it might give Tcl more
exposure. It is what it is though.

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Perhaps because they'd rather do something useful with the tool they've created instead of trying to win some sort of nonexistent popularity contest? What value would there be in that?

Not trying to reinvent the wheel whenever feasible is both good programming and good engineering most of the time. Unfortunately, the fact you see this as irksome only paints you in a negative light.

Adam

Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view) make it better. Your argument is sad to me.

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Robert


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