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I don’t recall exactly where I heard (perhaps #tcl on Freenode back in the day) that Tcl dodged a bullet by not becoming the standard, because it was left free
by bch 3y ago
I don’t recall exactly where I heard (perhaps #tcl on Freenode back in the day) that Tcl dodged a bullet by not becoming the standard, because it was left free to experiment without the responsibility of backward compatibility for the web…
Though it’s still amazingly backward compatible…
- namaria 3y agoThat's the real answer to all the longing for elegance and simplicity - what could have been if Lisp had won out etc. The elegant simplicity of non standard tech is there precisely because those are non standard tech tools.