[CMake] improve the CMake language?

[Bill Hoffman]

Sanchez, Juan wrote:
> Tcl is a nice language for implementing declarative commands.  It can be 
> easily built on about every platform out there, and the language rules 
> are well known.  It is small, and very easy to compile a standalone Tcl 
> based interpreter with the CMake commands built in.  The user would not 
> need to have any language installed, you could package the source with 
> CMake or make it part of the cmake binary you distribute.  It is freely 
> distributable and has a BSD license.
>

We are not doing CMake in Tcl!

We specifically avoided it at the start.  From what I can tell it is 
declining, and the compile a standalone thing was never that easy, and 
we (Kitware) have plenty of experience with tcl.  Please don't bother to 
refute this ...  ( I am ranting a bit).  CMake would require Tcl to 
build, right now it only needs C++, and I aim to keep it that way.

I will say this.  Unless someone is going to fork CMake, I do not think 
there will be a new language.  I guess I should just stay on the side 
lines until the current "change the language thread" is over... SIGH...

-Bill