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That was certainly an unusual choice of language for a problem like that. But, I guess, use what you know. Seems like a decent fit, I didn't expect that - I mo
by tpmx 3y ago
That was certainly an unusual choice of language for a problem like that. But, I guess, use what you know.
Seems like a decent fit, I didn't expect that - I mostly know Tcl from very odd Tcl/Tk GUI apps in the 90s/early 00s.
- ncr100 3y agoIt's easy to prototype string passing tools with TCL, in my experience with the language at Uni.
- kristopolous 3y agomy favorite reference to it is in the HTML 4.0 standard https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.2 https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/scri... > "where "type" is an content type naming the scripting language. Examples of values include "text/tcl", "text/javascript", "text/vbscript"." It goes on to list text/tcl as a language, equivalent to javascript and even gives examples. There's a story behind this I read somewhere but I can't seem to find it. I once had one of those books that was like 500 pages by those companies like Que with a title like "The ___ Bible" which had at least a chapter on web tcl - in anticipation for the presumed support of it which I'll argue isn't around (besides this: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Using+Tcl+to+write+WWW+client+side+applications+within+the+WWW+browser https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Using+Tcl+to+write+WWW+client...).
- lmm 3y agoTCL/Tk was the original web-embedded language. You had TkLets, which were the inspiration for Java Applets and worked the same way (with a browser plugin etc.), but it was also suitable for Javascript-style scripting of webpages.