As I spend my time more and more in clojure these days I can't help but be reminded of some of the cool stuff you could do with TCL, which isn't surprising given its lisp heritage. Any language that cleanly lets you add new constructs is ok in my book!
Aolserver, that was fun too :) It's always amazing to me how TCL didn't stay more prominent. When Blizzard scripted WoW with TCL I was like "finally, someone gets it!" but that was more an anomaly than anything else.
...and F5 load balancers, and A10 load balancers, and Tealeaf network monitoring, and helping animate battling orcs in Lord of the Rings trilogy, manages NBCs control room, runs astrological equipment, was involved with Mars Pathfinder programme, has excellent testing facilities (at the core of dejagnu (used for testing GCC, among other things)), and on, and on, and on.
As I spend my time more and more in clojure these days I can't help but be reminded of some of the cool stuff you could do with TCL, which isn't surprising given its lisp heritage. Any language that cleanly lets you add new constructs is ok in my book!
Aolserver, that was fun too :) It's always amazing to me how TCL didn't stay more prominent. When Blizzard scripted WoW with TCL I was like "finally, someone gets it!" but that was more an anomaly than anything else.