Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005)

Re:Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005) by nerpderp83 on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:42AM (#15585279)

So all func calls are actually calls to eval?

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Re:Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005) by lmm on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:32AM (#15585728)

Again TCL kind of has the opposite perspective: all evaluation is text substitution.

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Re:Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005) by rurban on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:41PM (#15588697)

apply actually, which is the eval form for functions. Calls a function with a list of arguments

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Re:Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005) by convolvatron on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:38AM (#15585801)

yes, although there are compilers which statically deconstruct as much as they can

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