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Watching the first 30 minutes of this video, TCL has one more thing in common with Lisp: the fact that I appreciate it as an artifact and a testament to how sim

Watching the first 30 minutes of this video, TCL has one more thing in common with Lisp: the fact that I appreciate it as an artifact and a testament to how simple a language core can be, but I would never ever want to maintain a production system in it

phyrex 5y ago
There’s a huge difference between a minimal lisp interpreter you may have written in university and something industrial strength like Common Lisp or Clojure
- brundolf 5y ago
  I know. I just meant the language itself, not the interpreter.
  - phyrex 5y ago
    Then I don’t understand why you’d be outright opposed to running a production system with it. It’s not as shallow as just not liking the syntax, is it?