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One of my first jobs after college involved creating websites using Vignette StoryServer. At the time Tcl was the only language you could use with it. I was hap

• kiwidrew 7y ago
  You've brought back some painful memories for me. I'm permanently allergic to the words "lindex" and "upvar", and cringe whenever I see a "," character in a URL... Vignette's only redeeming qualities were that: (1) the page templates permitted the execution of arbitrary Tcl code, not just the small subset that was documented by Vignette; and (2) much of the Vignette functionality was itself actually implemented in Tcl. This led to the glorious discovery that one could simply bypass the entire crazy Vignette system and use it like a very expensive (and somewhat slower) AOLserver. I sometimes feel sorry for the poor souls who inherited my terrifying and entirely undocumented creation, but that's what happens when management forces developers to use the entirely wrong tool for the task at hand. ("We spent $100k USD on this software so we're damn well going to use it!")