[ale] Tcl? (was: Re: [ale] Ale Inc.? (was RE: [ale] surviving sans work)

[John Wells]

> seem. Java and Perl are among the horriblest.
> 
> My opinion, of course :-)
> 

I'm surprised you choose tcl over perl.  Tcl has got
to be one of the ugliest languages I've had the
displeasure of using.  I should know, I maintain a
project consisting of over 300,000 lines.  It's great
if you're doing simple string or list processing but
try representing something advanced (i.e., data
structures like linked lists, multidimensional arrays)
and you begin to see it's underbelly.  From that point
on, everything you do feels like a dirty hack.  In
fact, there's no such thing as an array in
tcl...everything's a hash table...

I'm sure I'm completely overlooking some of its
benefits.  I know they have to be there to be some,
and I'm sure the tight integration with tk provides a
few.  I thought it interesting that RedHat used tcl/tk
to develop Source Navigator.

Just my two cents...

John

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