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Re:The Birth of Tcl by RHSeeger on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:00AM (#31118045)
I adore Tcl, and always have. Funny that you mention Lisp, because I've always considered Tcl a kind of "close cousin" of Lisp; both in it's code structure and the ability to build new control structures and the like. It feels more Lisp-y to me than it does C-y.
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Re:The Birth of Tcl by sedatk on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:16PM (#31126717)
You're absolutely right. But I have bad memories of dealing with parentheses in AutoLISP from the 90's. The trauma remains :)
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Re:The Birth of Tcl by antod on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:50PM (#31139432)
My only lisp experience was trying to teach myself AutoLISP in notepad in the mid 90s - I remember the parentheses trauma well. This was before I knew any CS or what a functional language was.

I did come away impressed though with how it could map to CAD concepts. It reminded me of the RPN stack when programming my HP42 calculator. I could sense there was an underlying elegance I wasn't fully grasping.

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