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by 77pt77 620 days ago
Tcl is basically a sloppier Perl with a GUI.
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But you can look at it without barfing, at least. And have fun doing wacky metaprogramming instead of wacky code golfing aka obfuscation.
I came into this comment thread thinking "why should I bother with Tcl if I know Perl" but your comment nearly sold me. When I do Perl it's because I can afford to be sloppy, and coming with a GUI sounds like a good deal!
Well, and a GUI that people see fit to implement within many other languages as well.
TCL fits on microcontrollers. If I'm looking at anything other than Python or bash(for trivial logicless scripting) it's probably because I'm in a constrained environment.
> Tcl is basically a sloppier Perl

That’s a hot take for one language with basically a sheet to describe it[0], and another whose “rules” are best described by “whatever this implementation does.”

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Dodekalogue