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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by bch on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @01:12PM (#10117989)
> Perl has much better facilities for working with unicode

Which facilities are those ?

> many other advanced facilities for parsing

Be curious to hear what those are, but note that Tcl is hilariously simple to extend and build up custom constructs to suit ones needs.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by eviltwinskippy on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:41PM (#10118642)
Not to mention that Tcl has Unicode in the core, has had Unicode in the core for at least 8 years, and the long and short is that EVERY string operation is Unicode aware.

You can have unicode procedure names, if that was your fancy.

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Re:Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl by bch on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:57PM (#10118747)
...right, which is why I was wondering where Perl's support is superior. Tcl's support isn't perfect nor complete, but it's still pretty impressive.
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