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The Picol code has always been a fascinating read, until you get to the comment /* XXX: escape handling missing! */ and realise it won't escape/eval stuff insid

The Picol code has always been a fascinating read, until you get to the comment /* XXX: escape handling missing! */ and realise it won't escape/eval stuff inside strings, so you think ha! and roll up your sleeves and get tapping ... then you think ha! I could just improve that bit of code, and ... before you know it the sun's coming up and you didn't feed the dog last night. Speaking for a friend, obviously.

antirez 4y ago
It happened to me as well, and that was the result: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl Libraries written for Jim Tcl became the foundation of Redis.
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the nerd snipe source code into his own repo, or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the source into his own repo, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the source in your repo. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the source in my repo!
  - tzot 4y ago
    Is my knowledge of English lacking? Am I missing context perhaps? Is this a machine generated comment?
    - krapp 4y ago
      It's a parody comment based on the poison goblet scene from the movie "The Princess Bride." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
bsder 4y ago
This is the same thing that happens in Scheme/Lisp when you note that the tiny thing you're working on doesn't handle dotted pairs so you dig in and ... The next thing you know your tiny code has tripled in size and now spews so much gark that you have to go optimize your garbage collector and ...
zserge 4y ago
Huh! Falling into exactly this trap, I ended up writing a tiny Tcl interpreter for the embedded systems years ago: https://zserge.com/posts/tcl-interpreter/ https://zserge.com/posts/tcl-interpreter/
tyingq 4y ago
It also doesn't do well with strings that have a null character in it. Which would stop basic stuff like being able to copy/read arbitrary files. So, neat, but not practical outside a narrow subset of problems.

antirez 4y ago

It happened to me as well, and that was the result: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl Libraries written for Jim Tcl became the foundation of Redis.

actionfromafar 4y ago
But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the nerd snipe source code into his own repo, or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the source into his own repo, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the source in your repo. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the source in my repo!
- tzot 4y ago
  Is my knowledge of English lacking? Am I missing context perhaps? Is this a machine generated comment?
  - krapp 4y ago
    It's a parody comment based on the poison goblet scene from the movie "The Princess Bride." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo

bsder 4y ago

This is the same thing that happens in Scheme/Lisp when you note that the tiny thing you're working on doesn't handle dotted pairs so you dig in and ... The next thing you know your tiny code has tripled in size and now spews so much gark that you have to go optimize your garbage collector and ...

zserge 4y ago

Huh! Falling into exactly this trap, I ended up writing a tiny Tcl interpreter for the embedded systems years ago: https://zserge.com/posts/tcl-interpreter/ https://zserge.com/posts/tcl-interpreter/

tyingq 4y ago

It also doesn't do well with strings that have a null character in it. Which would stop basic stuff like being able to copy/read arbitrary files. So, neat, but not practical outside a narrow subset of problems.