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Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to Stallmann the language itself, I've always enjoyed working with Tcl. And as you say, it's got a pretty great source code.
by mhd 12y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to Stallmann the language itself, I've always enjoyed working with Tcl. And as you say, it's got a pretty great source code.
But you need more than one leg to stand on, and due to its embedded roots and other hysterical reasons, Tcl did a relatively bad job when it came to building a good package library and infrastructure. Which in turn hurt the community, which made for fewer package contributors and so forth.
And once Tk lost most of its importance and languages like Lua appeared...
- davidw 12y agoTcl's package/repository story was certainly inferior to Perl's, and many other languages'. That's different from the language not being 'solid' though!
- sigzero 12y agoI love Tcl. It is the quirkiness (meaning non-Algol) of it that appeals to me. The community around it is great. The TCT puts a lot of thought into what goes in as well. I am on the dev list to just keep an eye on what goes on. :)