TclWise: Guide to the Tcl programming language (2004)

Post by blacksqr » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

bschwindHN wrote: post #7

systems wrote: post #3

if someone is really interested in learn Tcl (not Tk) i strongly recommend "Tcl 8.5 Network Programming" by Wojciech Kocjan and Piotr Beltowski while the book is not very recent, Tcl didnt change much in the past few years Tcl is really a super nice language, i think if they manage to get a cpan like platform, and maybe decent ide support .. it should be on every programmer list of languages

I disagree, "everything is a string" makes for sloppy programs. Programmers should be learning languages with good type systems if they want to build anything larger than some simple glue scripts. I interned at a large company which had hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of Tcl scripts to customize an engineering package they use. It was a complete nightmare. It would be preferable to have less of those in th…

Post by bschwindHN » Sun, Jul 08, 2018, 10:39 AM UTC

blacksqr wrote: post #11

bschwindHN wrote: post #7

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I disagree, "everything is a string" makes for sloppy programs. Programmers should be learning languages with good type systems if they want to build anything larger than some simple glue scripts. I interned at a large company which had hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of Tcl scripts to customize an engineering package they use. It was a complete nightmare. It would be preferable to have less of those in th…

Thank goodness that in our enlightened post-Tcl modern age million-line code nightmares no longer exist.

Post by isr » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 12:55 AM UTC

rkeene2 wrote: post #12

isr wrote: post #10

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(not OP, but hope you don't mind my $0:02) tcl is what you get when you take shell and lisp, and smash them into each other. In many ways, its a lisp whose central data structure is the string, rather than than the linked list (so, a sisp?). And instead of macros, you have fexpressions (functions which can decide at runtime whether or not to evaluate its arguments). When you understand it like that, you can write som…

If you like using Tcl as a replacement for bash you might enjoy "pipethread" http://www.rkeene.org/tmp/pipethread-presentation-withnotes.... https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/pipethread/