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I am trying to figure out what you mean by this. I was under the impression the official Tcl source was in C. Can you provide more of an explanation?
by RHSeeger 4y ago
I am trying to figure out what you mean by this. I was under the impression the official Tcl source was in C. Can you provide more of an explanation?
- robotresearcher 4y agoThe C source has been translated ('transpiled') to Go source. That's not what is usually meant by 'implemented in', but I guess it's not wrong, since there now exists an implementation in Golang.
- RHSeeger 4y agoAh, ok, that makes more sense then. The "implemented in. Not a clone" made it sound like the actual, core language implementation had been switched over to Go... and clearly that didn't sound right.
- tpoindex 4y agoRight, the reference Tcl implementation is still in C. This project takes the C code and produces Go, along with a supporting libc emulation in Go. It's still the original C code, not a clone as Jim or Picol.
- RHSeeger 4y agoThanks for the clarification. I don't use Tcl for normal work anymore (though I still use it for small things), but it still has a very special place in my heart. It's one of my favorite languages to program in.