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bachmeier on Oct 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tcl: Everything Is a String

This paper by John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl) is a good read if you think Tcl is a weird language plagued by bad design decisions. If that describes you, it's probably the case that you don't understand the problem Tcl was designed to solve.

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...

bloaf on Oct 29, 2019 [–]

>Almost all Tcl ‘‘programs’’ will be short, many only one line long.

I weep silently over the 50kloc tcl codebase I help maintain.

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