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I'm thinking of going full code-hipster and learning Tcl

12 points by alexwestin 12y ago

Has anyone created anything interesting in Tcl lately?

duncan_bayne 12y ago
Wow, there's a blast from the past. A friend of mine (Jesse Liley) built a cool device-mounting-thingy called MUT in Tcl a few years ago, for the Puppy Linux distro.
biomimic 12y ago
I've code algorithms for spellcheckers and text summarizers in Tcl. I've been using it for proof-of-concept data science/AI/machine learning stuff for years.
cms07 12y ago
I've done a good deal with Perl's Tkx library, which basically forces you to understand Tcl, but I haven't used it beyond that.
_pius 12y ago
No, but Merry Christmas. :) http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
- alexwestin 12y ago
  Digging
- biomimic 12y ago
  Hal Abelson seems like an interesting guy (first link)
  - _pius 12y ago
    He is. I was fortunate enough to have him as an advisor in college.
YAYERKA 12y ago
Tcl/Tk is an often overlooked tool to quickly test UI ideas. Check out `http://wiki.tcl.tk/' http://wiki.tcl.tk/' (which has lot's of good information). Also learn some Tcl by reading the redis test suite here, `https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests' https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests'.
- alexwestin 12y ago
  Thanks. I was wondering about the Tk implantation in terms of plotting and charts.
zerohp 12y ago
Digital designers still use it. I'd bet that most of the silicon in your computer was designed with a lot of TCL involved.
networked 12y ago
I'm working on static site generator written in Tcl that is nearing its 1.0 release. It aims to be featureful but self-contained and have reasonable defaults to allow you to quickly start working on a new website. You can find it at https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg. I've also written an Awk-like tool in Tcl that speaks SQL and has table joins - https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk.
mpcjanssen 12y ago
I just created a tool to walk a wsdl definition to create a single contained xsd file for distribution to users of the wsdl. With Tcl the tool was done in a couple of hours. Edit: Also http://caiusproject.com/ http://caiusproject.com/ looks very interesting.
palmtcl 12y ago
I would have to guess at what interests you :-) but some recent links I found interesting - - VecTcl numerical package at http://auriocus.github.io/VecTcl/vectclab.html http://auriocus.github.io/VecTcl/vectclab.html - Tcl on Android at http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home - Test automation at http://caiusproject.com/ http://caiusproject.com/ And most interesting to me, naturally, as the author :-) http://wits.magicsplat.com/screenshot.html http://wits.magicsplat.com/screenshot.html
galfarragem 12y ago
Recently I looked for a "TCLscript" targeting Javascript but I didn't find anything (under development at least). The only strong players that I recognise in this market are Coffeescript, Typescript and Clojurescript. Probably there would be a market for "TCLscript" also.
b1twise 12y ago
http://www.rubylane.com/info/careers http://www.rubylane.com/info/careers We'd love to hear from you if you're interested in coding for Naviserver and have HTML/CSS/JS skills. We're working to launch www.rubylux.com now.
stray 12y ago
Not since '97, but in '97 I was building internal apps for my company and turning out cross-platform graphical applications (Solaris, Windows) faster than seemed possible. Tcl/Tk was of course, my secret weapon.

12 points by alexwestin 12y ago

Has anyone created anything interesting in Tcl lately?

Wow, there's a blast from the past. A friend of mine (Jesse Liley) built a cool device-mounting-thingy called MUT in Tcl a few years ago, for the Puppy Linux distro.

biomimic 12y ago

I've code algorithms for spellcheckers and text summarizers in Tcl. I've been using it for proof-of-concept data science/AI/machine learning stuff for years.

cms07 12y ago

I've done a good deal with Perl's Tkx library, which basically forces you to understand Tcl, but I haven't used it beyond that.

_pius 12y ago

No, but Merry Christmas. :) http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

alexwestin 12y ago
Digging
biomimic 12y ago
Hal Abelson seems like an interesting guy (first link)
- _pius 12y ago
  He is. I was fortunate enough to have him as an advisor in college.

YAYERKA 12y ago

Tcl/Tk is an often overlooked tool to quickly test UI ideas. Check out `http://wiki.tcl.tk/' http://wiki.tcl.tk/' (which has lot's of good information). Also learn some Tcl by reading the redis test suite here, `https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests' https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests'.

alexwestin 12y ago
Thanks. I was wondering about the Tk implantation in terms of plotting and charts.

zerohp 12y ago

Digital designers still use it. I'd bet that most of the silicon in your computer was designed with a lot of TCL involved.

networked 12y ago

I'm working on static site generator written in Tcl that is nearing its 1.0 release. It aims to be featureful but self-contained and have reasonable defaults to allow you to quickly start working on a new website. You can find it at https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg. I've also written an Awk-like tool in Tcl that speaks SQL and has table joins - https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk.

mpcjanssen 12y ago

I just created a tool to walk a wsdl definition to create a single contained xsd file for distribution to users of the wsdl. With Tcl the tool was done in a couple of hours. Edit: Also http://caiusproject.com/ http://caiusproject.com/ looks very interesting.

palmtcl 12y ago

I would have to guess at what interests you :-) but some recent links I found interesting - - VecTcl numerical package at http://auriocus.github.io/VecTcl/vectclab.html http://auriocus.github.io/VecTcl/vectclab.html - Tcl on Android at http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home - Test automation at http://caiusproject.com/ http://caiusproject.com/ And most interesting to me, naturally, as the author :-) http://wits.magicsplat.com/screenshot.html http://wits.magicsplat.com/screenshot.html

galfarragem 12y ago

Recently I looked for a "TCLscript" targeting Javascript but I didn't find anything (under development at least). The only strong players that I recognise in this market are Coffeescript, Typescript and Clojurescript. Probably there would be a market for "TCLscript" also.

b1twise 12y ago

http://www.rubylane.com/info/careers http://www.rubylane.com/info/careers We'd love to hear from you if you're interested in coding for Naviserver and have HTML/CSS/JS skills. We're working to launch www.rubylux.com now.

stray 12y ago

Not since '97, but in '97 I was building internal apps for my company and turning out cross-platform graphical applications (Solaris, Windows) faster than seemed possible. Tcl/Tk was of course, my secret weapon.