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

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

I never coded in TCL nor did I use TK, but I was impressed by the fact that
a full-screen graphical text editor was written in about 1200 lines of
TCL/TK

md

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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