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I'm very glad that only game writers are using Tcl for scripting their games. It's a godawful language I'd never want to maintain any real software in. Python a
by chrisdone 12y ago
I'm very glad that only game writers are using Tcl for scripting their games. It's a godawful language I'd never want to maintain any real software in. Python and Ruby are bad, but Tcl is a degenerate joke. Let's please leave it undiscovered.
- Matumio 12y agoTcl is the major scripting language used by all FPGA vendors, and sadly it doesn't look like it is going away. You can call Python from it, but FPGA developers (especially those Windows) will make a big fuss about installing an external tool, and should they install Python2 or Python3? Also, the major FPGA programming languages (vhdl and verilog) make tcl look great (or any other language, for that matter).
- networked 12y agoYou may be pleased to learn that game developers do not use Tcl for scripting these days and, indeed, few ever have; see http://wiki.tcl.tk/40487 http://wiki.tcl.tk/40487. Their embedded language of choice is, by a large margin, Lua.
- razzmataz 12y agoThat said, the saving grace for Tcl were things like Expect and Tk. I don't think I ever used it for anything else....
- biomimic 12y agoIt's being used for AI, ML and data science.
- gaius 12y agoSentiments like this please me greatly. Out of curiosity, what do you prefer?
- deepsearch 12y agoOne of the greatest proof of concept languages out there. Yes, please do not discover.