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The objections to tcl I see most often seem to reflect an outdated or incomplete understanding of the language and its capabilities. As with many interpreted languages, maybe it's …

> When "everything is a string" then you have no choice but to literally treat everything as a string. As someone who has been developing tcl almost daily for more than 30 years, b…

Similar amount of experience with tcl here (since dc_shell-t was released). I love working in tcl. It can be expressive, redable, sufficiently performant, and makes it easy and fas…

Search upthread for "Klines" and "80s"

100's of Klines of code in continuous development over the last 10 years, still currently maintained and continually adapted for new use cases in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)…

Many of the big EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools continue to use tcl for the command line interface. Some users have created quite complex, customizable design flows spanni…

> It fakes having numbers, which works, but has to be slow. This hasn't been the case for 25 years, since the 8.0 release. Tcl will store data internally in whatever format it was …

I came here to say this. But also, for those who don't know. this is referring to "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, author of "The Martian". (Caution, many spoilers in the Wikipedi…

De Havilland Dash 8, for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3voCL_CK18&t=14s

I am not aware of any reports of aircraft struck by meteors. However,there are planes which have been damaged or destroyed by debris on the runway [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/…

The perception that ADHD is nothing more than the inability to "sit still and pay attention" is very wrong and very out of date. Before you comment further I would strongly recomme…

Yes, according to the documentation, braces in comments should be ignored. However, the parser is confused by unbalanced braces in comments. Here's a classic case that turns up occ…

TIL of Bartosz Ciechanowski. What an incredibly gifted communicator. Thank you!

Or this? Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(film)

Nothing is "perfectly safe". Many things are egregiously, unnecessarily unsafe.

Update on the prediction: (Feb. 26, 2022) "“We have finalized our forecast of SC25’s amplitude,” says McIntosh. “It will be just above the historical average with a monthly smoothe…

(December 19, 2020) "The consensus view of an international panel of 12 scientists calls for the new cycle, Solar Cycle 25, to be small to average, much like its predecessor, Solar…

Topic always reminds me of this story: http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/downandout.html

We do. Example from Oregon: ORS 811.275 (1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield the right of way at an uncontrolled intersection if the person is operating a motor veh…

If you're not familiar with it, recommend to read the story first [0]. Previous HN discussion on the story here [1]. [0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo [1] https://news.ycombinator.com…

(off topic) I read that at first glance as > Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna roll themselves. and thought, hm, I need to remember this debugging technique n…

Joe is the expert on feature X. When we have a problem in X we ask Joe for help and he invariably provides the insight needed to solve the problem. When Joe has a problem with X, h…

How many times do I need to go down this path: ... - ask for help - try to explain how it's supposed to work - try to explain how it's not working - Listen to them come up with all…

> Is it because the combustion takes place in a chambers somewhere inside the engine Yes, it is. Compare with "External Combustion Engine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_co…