cmacleod4

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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Redis is a very useful tool. You shouldn't blame the tool if people can't be bothered to use it properly!
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Who is the "we" you refer to here?
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
This is still just the first beta release, 9.0 final is a few months away.
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Are you sure? Uplevel enables various metaprogramming techniques with far less weird magic than C++ requires!
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EuroTcl 2024 registration now open(openacs.org)
3 points by cmacleod4 3y ago|1 comments
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
The OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2024 will take place on 11-12 July in Vienna. Registration and the call for presentations is now open.
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
I used to work at Bloomberg. They do use plenty of open-source software, but they also open-source some of their own work, and they do support other projects, e.g. sqlite.
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
I think there must be some potential for a usenet revival. The infrastructure is all still there. The binary groups are still flowing with gigabytes of piracy and porn. With some exceptions, most of the text groups are wastelands inhabit
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
The thing I miss most is that usenet clients will track exactly which messages you have read, so when you come back to a long-running discussion you can immediately see what is new since you last caught-up with it, something which none of t
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
It really pisses me off to see Redis described as a caching system. Yes it's good for caching, but it can do far more than just that. E.g the blocking list operations can be used to make lightweight ad-hoc communication channels - I&#
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
When I moved to London in my 40s I was gobsmacked to find that Mornington Crescent was a real Tube station. I had always assumed it was just invented for the purpose of the game! :-o
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
There are exceptions. I spent 15 years as a developer at Bloomberg, which is a fairly big company, working on the software behind various financial trading plaforms. That could be intense, demanding, stressful, sometimes satisfying, sometim
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Details at https://openacs.org/conf2023/info/download/file/decentespres... and https://learn.wu.ac.at/eurotcl2023/lecturecasts/690830882?m=...
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
There's not a lot of commercial demand for Tcl these days. Some people, like me, find that it fits their way of thinking and find its radical minimalism liberating. Many others do not. My current Tcl/Tk project is a usenet/
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
I have no experience of imgui but I found a comparison article here: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/imgui-tk.html
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First beta release of Tcl/Tk 9.0 now available(tcl-lang.org)
32 points by cmacleod4 3y ago|7 comments
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Version 9.0b1 of the Tcl programming language and Tk GUI toolkit is now available. New features include general conversion to 64-bit architecture allowing very large data structures, support for the full range of unicode characters, ability
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
The next major release Tcl 9.0 will support the full expanded unicode range, so you can properly manipulate strings containing Sanskrit, Arabic and Pile-of-Poo! Beta release coming "Real Soon Now" :-)
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
And the Reddit group for Tcl https://www.reddit.com/r/Tcl/ often gets lost souls asking about problems with TCL tvs or phones :-(
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
I remember people who worked with StoryServer saying Vignette had made a real mess of the integration with Tcl :-(
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
So Python now has a chance of catching up to Tcl for multithreaded performance - see https://www.hammerdb.com/blog/uncategorized/why-tcl-is-700-f... :-)
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Some people have no sense of humour :-/
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Make sure your knife is sharp. Let freshly-baked bread cool before attempting to slice. Wash the board after use. Simple!??
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with vi and all its offspring, but I use vim pretty much every day - thanks Bram!
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
The wiki page https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Freewrap mentions some alternatives. The most obvious alternative would be starpacks. Recently I find Christian Werner's LUCK tool - http://www.ch-werner.d
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Comdb2 is very heavily used inside Bloomberg; outside not so much.
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
"I can easily spin up a GUI in an hour tinkering with PyQt. Can you do the same in Tcl?" No, it would probably take 10 minutes with Tcl/Tk ;-)
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Since HPE don't seem to care about IRIX, they could get get some positive publicity by just open-sourcing it. :-/ In the nineties I was a university sysadmin. We were mostly a Sun shop but we had a handful of Indy workstations -
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
That sounds very familiar to me. I'm now retired but in my last job I put together a simple C++ framework to do something similar. I used this in a small part of a financial trading application. Like you, I was convinced it would pay
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by cmacleod4 3y ago
Various projects and companies using Tcl are listed at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl .

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