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This is specific to Tcl, but it is byte compiled [0], and work is ongoing right now to target llvm[1]. To say nothing of punting and coding performance-critical

by bch 12y ago

This is specific to Tcl, but it is byte compiled [0], and work is ongoing right now to target llvm[1]. To say nothing of punting and coding performance-critical code in C and orchestrating it all via Tcl. [0] https://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/archive/Tcl2002papers/kenny-bytecode/paperKBK.html https://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/archive/Tcl2002papers/k... [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/mailman/message/33568154/ http://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/mailman/message/33568154/

pjmlp 12y ago
That isn't nothing new to us old time TCLers.
- bch 12y ago
  Well, the LLVM announcement certainly is new. You'll have to forgive me though, I thought you may have been propagating the old "in Tcl, everything literally is a string" trope. What did you press it into service for in ye old .com boom?
  - pjmlp 12y ago
    An application server built on top of Apache and IIS modules, targeting Windows and multiple UNIX flavours. Similar to AOL Server and already using quite a few patterns that people seemed to only have discovered years later with Ruby On Rails, but since Portugal isn't SV no one heard of them. All critical path routines were actually done in C. However, eventually the platform was migrated to .NET with focus on Windows. The founders of this company went on to found OutSystems, with the lessons taken from this attempt.