Why “TCL” is being discussed
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Having written a lot of Tcl glue for PrimeTime and ICC, the hard part was never writing the constraints, it was knowing which timing violation to actually believe.
by hnd9q09qk4 · Oct 1, 2026
More flexible and permissive a language the easier it is to abuse. Tcl is both very flexible and permissive.
by srean · Oct 1, 2026
AOL released an AIM client called TiK[0] that used their TOC protocol[1] (Talk to OSCAR), which is text-based while OSCAR is binary, that was written in Tcl/Tk (and I think…
by bpeebles · Oct 1, 2026
This has nothing to do with tcl
by omilu · Sep 30, 2026
As someone who did enough of both (in fact, Tcl was my gateway to Lisp), I'd say yes and no. Classical Lisp (Scheme/CL) has much more elegant core concepts/semantics,…
by BoingBoomTschak · Sep 30, 2026
Too much rat wrestling. You could bang out a few lines of Tcl in your editor and have a working GUI. Even stub out the commands that widgets run, tweak and reload until it behav…
by bitwize · Sep 30, 2026
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