[ale] Tcl as a scripting language: 4/2/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

[Leam Hall]

Cisco used to use it, not sure now. It is easier to read than Perl, and
probably faster than Python, given not everything an object.

I used to do a lot of it; fun stuff!

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 08:40 Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> People still use TCL?
> It's not even installed by default on most systems these days.
> -derek
>
> On Mon, March 31, 2025 8:29 am, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Where: GoLUG: https://meet.jit.si/golug
> > When: Wednesday, 4/2/2025 7pm sharp Eastern Daylight time
> >       Arrive 15 minutes early for Microphone check & discussion
> > Who: David Billsbrough, veteran Linux admin and developer
> > What: Tcl as a scripting language
> >
> > If you're anything like me, you've always thought of Tcl as a
> > programming language, not a scripting language. And if you're anything
> > like me, you've looked at Tcl as a a competitor of Python, Lua, Perl or
> > Ruby, and preferred one of those. But when David told me he's going to
> > talk about Tcl for making shellscripts, well, that's a horse of a
> > different color. Will it be as good as my beloved KSH plus Shellcheck?
> > I'm going to this meeting to find out, and hope to see you there.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > GoLUG Publicity Coordinator
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