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Jim the minimal Tcl dialect that your link points to is a pretty interesting animal, notable in its own right. I believe its one of the few Tcls to have lambda
by srean 11y ago
Jim the minimal Tcl dialect that your link points to is a pretty interesting animal, notable in its own right. I believe its one of the few Tcls to have lambda and tail call elimination. Its author would be a familiar figure to HN readers but perhaps associated with a different tool he wrote, redis. I for one knew about Jim and knew about Redis but made the connection that they were written by the same person much later.
- linuxlizard 11y agoThe Tcl might be less of a learning curve for myself and new employees. Forth is quite different.
- brudgers 11y agoForth will might attract a different pool of candidates. That might be a good thing if the idea of programming in Forth excites more people than programing in TCL does. And my unsupported by data gut suggests that Forth is more likely to excite people than TCL.
- blacksqr 11y agoThe mainstream version of Tcl has supported lambda and tail call features for quite some time.