<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For what it's worth, here is an older post from Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez, the author of </span><a href="http://redis.io/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Redis</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) on why Tcl is a misunderstood and unfairly maligned language :) It's a fairly interesting read.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<img class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" style=""></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">2014 marks 25 years of Tcl...<br><div><div><a href="http://blog.tkdocs.com/2014/01/happy-25th-tcl.html" target="_blank">http://blog.tkdocs.com/2014/01/happy-25th-tcl.html</a><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>Here's a pithy description...<br>
<br>"For anyone under 40 years old, you can think of Tcl like Ruby or Python,
 if those languages didn't have objects, if absolutely everything in 
them was treated as a string, and if every syntax rule added to the 
language resulted in its creator being tortured for one year."<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br>-- <br>When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sam Sgro<br><a href="mailto:sam.sgro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">sam.sgro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>

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