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What the hell even is TCL? It's all over your profile.

• sshine 4y ago
  TCL happens to be my first language. It is a command-based scripting language. Think Lisp, but where most things are also strings. Kinda hacky, but allows for very flexible syntax. https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/tcl/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/tcl/
  • iLoveOncall 4y ago
    This doesn't sound at all like a marketable skill :/
    • killjoywashere 4y ago
      Sort of like Cobol or MUMPS. There are systems which adopted Tcl for some reason 20 years ago and now the whole business depends on it and they will pay whatever it takes to keep it running.
    • sshine 4y ago
      I don't imagine that there are many Tcl jobs listed. The posting said that Joe is a Tcl/Tk maintainer; presumably why he puts this on his CV is not because of Tcl's current market share, but because being a maintainer for a historically widespread language reveals a skill set. If you ever thought of embedding Lua into something, Tcl isn't a bad alternative.
• wmil 4y ago
  It's a scripting language popular on Unix servers & workstations in the 90s. TK is a rapid gui kit. Basically for everything you'd use a quick web based control panel for now, you'd connect to the server and start a tcl/tk script. It'd open up a gui you could control with X Windows. There's probably still a lot of code out there.
• dang 4y ago
  We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31583039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31583039. This is the second time I had to do this to one of your posts in this thread. Please don't post like this to hiring threads in the future. Also, can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? You've done that quite a bit and we're hoping for a somewhat different sort of forum. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html