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one of my professors described TCL as "what a bunch of grad students made for a programming language". Always got a chuckle out of me.
by virtue3 6y ago
one of my professors described TCL as "what a bunch of grad students made for a programming language". Always got a chuckle out of me.
- the_hoser 6y agoPretty close. It was a professor that was tired of people writing languages to embed in their applications, so he wrote a language to embed in applications. Very much an XKCD 927 story.
- bch 6y agoThe guy who also brought us raft[0], log structured file systems[1], and Ousterhouts Dichotomy[2], among other things, in case you were thinking “not a bunch of grad students, but ‘some professor’.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy
- the_hoser 6y agoI figured that details like that didn't matter in the context of the joke. He was a smart and productive person that designed an ugly programming language.