From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T10:46:38+09:00
Subject: Re: When little languages grow...


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Booker C. Bense wrote:
> _ Of course it was vast overkill for 99% of what you need to
> do with that kind of system. As much as I dislike Tcl for other
> reasons, it is a very good language for extending applications
> via simple scripting. Adding your own specialized commands is
> fairly straightforward. I know quite a few scientific groups 
> that are using Python to do similar things these days.  

Another thing I like about Tcl is that it has _no_ special cases. Its
syntax, while superficially like shell scripts, is deeply like Lisp
(actually simpler: think Scheme with a few details backwards).

The equivalent of Ruby's "def" in Tcl is "proc". Well, proc is a
procedure, so you can redefine it, so as to add features to it.

That kind of goodies is the things that make Tcl quite bearable to me,
despite lacking a damn lot features (I originally switched to Perl from
Tcl)

I still have to work with Tcl because of a GUI made in Tk, but I'm quite
happy with it.

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