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I'm the blogger here - I think my main point is that the perceived oddness is inextricably linked to Tcl's strengths.
by cmacleod4 6y ago
I'm the blogger here - I think my main point is that the perceived oddness is inextricably linked to Tcl's strengths.
- jascii 6y agoI think that goes for a lot of languages that are now often considered "odd". There is something about how an elegant and simple paradigm can help you think about a problem! The first "higer" language I ever learned was Forth, and I never quite got to terms with infix notation, so I might be biassed ;)
- ci5er 6y agoThat's a great point, and after re-reading your blog-piece, I'm not sure that point came through so clearly as you just declared it here. A LONG time ago, I used to use it (tcl/tk) to do quick-and-dirty apps on X-windowed Unix boxes and port them to Windows without really knowing much about Windows. (That was handy!) And Expect blew me away back in the day of distributed systems management (I'm more of a programmer than a sys-admin, so I guess it would even be more important to those folks?). The whole "There is no math, only strings" thing, still irritates me to this day, but I suspect you are right - this might be tied to the simplicity and strengths. IDK. Food for though. Interesting piece. I think that I'm the only person I know that still dabbles in TCL after about 15~20 years ago (maybe I need to get out more), but it certainly rocks where it rocks! It is always surprising and pleasant to see a modern piece on it.