Tcl's 25th Birthday

[Sam Sgro]

For what it's worth, here is an older post from Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka
antirez, the author of Redis <http://redis.io/>) on why Tcl is a
misunderstood and unfairly maligned language :) It's a fairly interesting
read.

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 2014 marks 25 years of Tcl...
> http://blog.tkdocs.com/2014/01/happy-25th-tcl.html
>
> Here's a pithy description...
>
> "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."
>
> --
> When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
>
> --
> Sam Sgro
> sam.sgro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
>
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