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Tcl gave me my first taste of scripting, but even more of a revelation was that I could bury a Tcl interpreter in a C program and use Tcl to control all the C m
by adoyle 18y ago
Tcl gave me my first taste of scripting, but even more of a revelation was that I could bury a Tcl interpreter in a C program and use Tcl to control all the C modules. It made it really easy to dynamically change the behavior of a running server. Of course security was a bit of an issue, but in 1992 the net was still relatively calm.
- davidw 18y agoTcl's C API is still more or less the 'best in the business', afaik. Ruby and Python aren't bad, but Tcl just gives you so much access, and the source code itself (modulo the regexp code) is a pleasure to read if you want to hack the C code yourself.