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by asicsp 1949 days ago
http://www.little-lang.org/why.html is pretty interesting

>We (BitKeeper folks) did our GUI interfaces in Tcl/Tk years ago because it meant we could have one gui person and get the same gui tools on Windows, Mac, Unix, and Linux.

>While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl.

>Success was realized when one of our engineers, who is not a Little fan, fixed a bug in a patch that flew by in email without realizing it was Little instead of C