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Upsides: It's neat! Downsides: Oh god TCL is horrible.

• bch 8y ago
  Tcl is a joy in the right context, and there’s a lot of places “that context” is present. Tcl is also conceptually simple enough, but sufficiently powerful that it’s a really interesting language/environment to develop in, and indeed hot-rod (or watch being hot-rodded). Fantastic work Donal and Kevin.
• kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
  It's just dirty lisp without the parens overload. I wouldn't write voluminous amounts of code in it and numerics are tedious at best but it excels at the thing it was designed to do: be a lightweight embeddable language. You can strip it down so that scripts are only usable for configuration settings, safely run untrusted code, or let it be fully Turing complete.
• gaius 8y ago
  Oh god TCL is horrible Think of it as a C library with a very flexible configuration file... TCL is amazing and was doing what Lua and Node do a decade or more before they badly reinvented a subset of it and called it new.
  • tomcam 8y ago
    What makes Lua worse than TCL? Not a TCL expert.
    • pmarin 8y ago
      He is not saying that Lua is worse. Tcl was doing event based programming decades before Node and lua make it trendy.
• exikyut 8y ago
  I'd appreciate if you could add a few words substantiating/explaining what you mean.