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You are right, but none of those criticisms apply to Tcl, which is both beautiful and integrates really well with the Unix environment. I won't say that it is
by zeveb 6y ago
You are right, but none of those criticisms apply to Tcl, which is both beautiful and integrates really well with the Unix environment. I won't say that it is perfect, but it is really, really good. A better choice than Perl where Perl is used, a better choice than Lua almost everywhere Lua is used, often a better choice than Python.
Tcl is horribly, terribly under-appreciated. It is one of the great might-have-beens of modern computing, almost as much as is Lisp.
- yumaikas 6y agoEh, having used both Tcl and Lua, I definitely think Lua is the better of the two when it comes to a scripting engine for games. And I think Lua is more elegant than TCL overall. TCL's stringiness really gets clumsy in certain types of programs, and it's a much larger target than Lua overall. Not to say that TCL is bad, but I'm glad that dict-based languages prevailed over TCL's string-based-ness