On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:40:57PM -0600, Nick Bender wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:00:24AM -0600, Nick Bender wrote:
> >> <raises head>
> >>
> >> TCL? BSD, small, fast, been around forever, C like syntax. In base
> >> would be awesome...
> >>
> >> <ducks>
> >
> > How can a language where everything is a string be good?
> >
> > ? ? ? ?-Otto
>
> While that was true in early versions it is no longer the case. As
> values are used they are converted to the appropriate representation,
> e.g.:
>
> set x 1; set y 2
> set z [expr $x+$y]
>
> After assignment x and y are strings. During the evaluation of expr
> they are converted to integers and z is assigned an integer value.
Type unsafeness is staring me in the face.
>
> TCL is fairly modern at this point with features such as JIT byte
> compilation of procs.
Having a smart interpreter doesn't make the language better.
Anyway, I don't want to go into language wars here.
-Otto
