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Re:Red is a next-generation programming language strongly in... by cmrdporcupine on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:11AM (#45083781)
This. In fact it seems like plenty of hardware-eng tools use Tcl, and looking at all alternatives it's not a bad choice.

With Tcl you get something like a Lisp with a flexible consistent syntax, but less brainy and more pragmatic, and designed to drive other tools.

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Re:Red is a next-generation programming language strongly in... by justin66 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:02PM (#45084789)
My impression many years ago was that it’s really not that bad. I got up and running writing simple programs immediately, and wouldn’t have tried to go outside its capabilities as a simple scripting language.
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