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by bschwindHN 2906 days ago
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 the future.

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Thank goodness that in our enlightened post-Tcl modern age million-line code nightmares no longer exist.
I'll take a statically typed million-line code nightmare over a Tcl one every time.
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