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While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl. He
by isxek 10y ago
While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl.
He did what every crazy boss does, he funded a programming language.
These bits made me laugh (and feel some small amount of envy). Is it correct to presume they're referring to you here?
- luckydude 10y agoHi, pointed haired boss here, reporting for duty :) I get the envy, it is nice being able to fund a language. I feel vaguely guilty like I was scratching my own itch, because that's exactly what was going on. I'll feel less guilty if someone else says "hey, cool, looks like C" and plays with it. I think if I did it all over again I'd open source it sooner.
- isxek 10y agoThe envy is actually directed at your co-workers/employees: they get to work on something that has almost completely no hope of becoming commercial :). I understand why you did it with your VCS, but with a scripting language? I would have made it open source sooner, too. Then again, as the business owner, there are always other angles that need to be considered.
- luckydude 10y agoIt was just always work to clean it up and make a website and export the code to git. It was everyone working on it for the last few weeks, it was way more work than I wanted it to be. The other aspect was that I wanted the language design to settle down before open sourcing it. I wasn't interested in a "design by internet" language, my experience is that stuff that comes out of one mind tends to hang together better. I probably waited longer than I needed to :)
- isxek 10y agoThanks for open sourcing it! I'll start building syntax highlighting for it for the editor I use. Should be easy enough since it's based on C.