[tclmeelmo]

I remember playing around with REBOL a long time ago and it seemed useful and practical, but for reasons long forgotten I never used it. Maybe licensing? RED does look cool and I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the tip.

Don't have any experience with Nim, but I share your interest for the same reasons. Haskell and I don't get along, maybe I'm too old and set in my ways?

Did you catch the link to/discussion of Little shared on here a few days ago? It might be of interest. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530097

[nickpsecurity]

Me too on Haskell. Mainly plan to try other two. Saw Little but didn't really get it past adoption. Then, your comment led me to the Why page which told me that was exactly the point. Along with programming in the large support. Funnier when I found out the boss wrote that.

I'd say it's not a good language to go with today for same reasons I'd say Tcl isn't. It's an interesting improvement especially to get better syntax with legacy compatibility with field-proven, TCL modules. And TK is still the shit for portable, easy-to-build GUI's. A TCL shop should definitely experiment with it and maybe incrementally upgrade their code. I think I'd be fine with a more typed, efficient, and fixed version of Tcl for some apps. Especially a command shell replacement or prototyping system.

Just not production unless it's non-critical like what you use it for. I don't even use it to glue to critical things as the glue is part of the TCB to a degree. Gotta find close-to-metal, abstract, typed, efficient, and macro'd stuff to replace it. At least we have contenders.