[lomnakkus]

I skimmed it very quickly, but quite a bit of that 'defense' of Tcl seems to be assuming that the problem with "everything is a string" is performance. It isn't.

There are very good reasons that stringly typed programming is frowned upon and 'performance' is very seldom one of them.

There's also seems to be a weird assumption that everthing-is-a-string means that you don't have to think about types. It's actually the exact opposite since now you don't have types for the compiler/runtime to help you to combine values in well-defined ways.

(I realize that the thing was written ages ago and we/the author may have learned a thing or two in the mean time.)

[blacksqr]

"What is Tcl"

http://wiki.tcl.tk/299

[lomnakkus]

If you take issue with my post, then please be specific rather than throwing a link to a big page at me.

Seriously, am I somehow supposed to divine your criticism of my post from that link?

[blacksqr]

I'm sorry you interpreted my attempt to provide you with additional information about why some people might see Tcl in a positive light as criticism.