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Tcl is super interesting from a historical point of view. It seems to hit about halfway between shell and Lisp. With some small differences, it probably would
by klodolph 3y ago
Tcl is super interesting from a historical point of view. It seems to hit about halfway between shell and Lisp.
With some small differences, it probably would have competed more directly against Perl, Python, or maybe Lua. As it is, it gave us Wish, plus a bunch of GUI wrappers for shell scripts, and we’re thankful for those.
- ben7799 3y agoI think some of it back then was there was less internet communication and Tcl could be popular one place and Python was popular in another place and Perl popular in another team. Now we discuss everything so much communities converge on a common choice. Perl & Tcl really share the issue that undisciplined developers could make really obfuscated code that was hard to decipher.