wduquette

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by wduquette 3y ago
TCL takes discipline, like any other language.
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by wduquette 3y ago
Tcl has an excellent unit test suite, Tcltest, that's remarkably easy to use. It's been around a couple of decades. I've written more test cases using it than I could easily count.
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by wduquette 3y ago
In the mid-70's my dad built a Heathkit-branded DEC PDP-11, with a dumb terminal and a paper tape reader/punch for I/O. Later he got dual 8" floppy drive, and upgraded the memory from 16K to 28K (the maximum!). I learn
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by wduquette 4y ago
Teapot/Teacup was lovely while ActiveState was supporting it. I believe someone in the community still maintains a Teapot, but I don't know how current it is. And as for language server—yeah, not gonna happen.
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by wduquette 4y ago
It's quite possible to make attractive GUIs in Tcl/Tk if you're willing to put in the effort and have some design sense. It's also really easy to create truly ugly (but functional) GUIs in Tcl/Tk.
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by wduquette 4y ago
I used SQLite with Tcl for many years, and yes, it truly is.
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by wduquette 4y ago
So happens, the "dumb terminal" he depicts as a dumb terminal is a VT320, one of the quintessential smart terminals. If you want a dumb terminal, go find a picture of an ADM 3a. (I first used emacs on a VT220, IIRC.)
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by wduquette 4y ago
I remember reading this back in the day. Later I implemented a Forth interpreter as a kind of embedded language for C programs, complete with a code scanner so that you could call selected C functions and access selected variables from Fort