Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language

Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by zeveb on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:45AM (#24082411)

You are right, but none of those criticisms apply to Tcl, which is both beautiful and integrates really well with the Unix environment. I won't say that it is perfect, but it is really, really good. A better choice than Perl where Perl is used, a better choice than Lua almost everywhere Lua is used, often a better choice than Python.

Tcl is horribly, terribly under-appreciated. It is one of the great might-have-beens of modern computing, almost as much as is Lisp.

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Re:Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful moder... by yumaikas on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:06AM (#24082630)

Eh, having used both Tcl and Lua, I definitely think Lua is the better of the two when it comes to a scripting engine for games.

And I think Lua is more elegant than TCL overall. TCL's stringiness really gets clumsy in certain types of programs, and it's a much larger target than Lua overall.

Not to say that TCL is bad, but I'm glad that dict-based languages prevailed over TCL's string-based-ness

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