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This paper by John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl) is a good read if you think Tcl is a weird language plagued by bad design decisions. If that describes you, it's
by bachmeier 7y ago
This paper by John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl) is a good read if you think Tcl is a weird language plagued by bad design decisions. If that describes you, it's probably the case that you don't understand the problem Tcl was designed to solve.
https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...
- bloaf 7y ago>Almost all Tcl ‘‘programs’’ will be short, many only one line long. I weep silently over the 50kloc tcl codebase I help maintain.