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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by surfingdino on Saturday July 20, 2024 @01:46PM (#41018222)
Tcl "powers" the internet in a non-direct way since it is used in Cisco IOS.
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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by rwmj on Saturday July 20, 2024 @01:48PM (#41018233)
And every proprietary EDA tool in the world too.
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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by bch on Saturday July 20, 2024 @03:03PM (#41018827)
...and a10/F5 aFleX/iRules[0][1], and the scripting in Tealeaf[2][3], ...

[0] https://www.a10networks.com/blog/aflex-tutorial/

[1] https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/irules-concept...

[2] https://www.acoustic.com/tealeaf

[3] https://help.goacoustic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043785173-E...

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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by IshKebab on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:09PM (#41019379)
...unfortunately.

I guess to be fair if it hadn't been TCL they would have chosen something even worse.

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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by surfingdino on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:50PM (#41019753)
I guess Lua wasn't available at the time.
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Re:A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout by latenightcoding on Saturday July 20, 2024 @01:52PM (#41018278)
Chez Scheme too then!
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