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Sounds like a gap TCL could fill. The syntax is simple and consistent, a developer could create packages that a non-developer end user can use as commands, and

• orthoxerox 5y ago
  Tcl is good, but non-developers could really benefit from more write-time checks. Something that can tell them "there's no command called moveRight, the nearest match is move-right" before their script is executed.
  • mrlemke 5y ago
    I agree. I would really like the same. Komodo IDE may help with this, but I haven't tried it. I usually end up in vim due to habit.
• blacksqr 5y ago
  Linked article appears to be describing the exact original motivation for writing Tcl: "My students and I had written several interactive tools for IC design, such as Magic and Crystal. Each tool needed to have a command language (in those days people tended to invoke tools by typing commands; graphical user interfaces weren't yet in widespread use). However, our primary interest was in the tools, not their command languages. Thus we didn't invest much effort in the command languages and the languages ended up being weak and quirky. Furthermore, the language for one tool couldn't be carried over to the next, so each tool ended up with a different bad command language. After a while this became tiresome and embarrassing." https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php