Re: What's TCL related to?

casioculture@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Perl is an Awk on steroids, Python is a lisp-made-easy, Ruby is either
> a lispish-perl-made-easy or a perlish-lisp-made-easy that's 'talking
> small' and squeking.
>
> What's TCL related to? Who are her immediate family?

Tcl always seemed like a scriptable 'command line' to me. By command
line I mean any shell be it bash or DOS.

I know that basically describes all shell scripting and most other
scripting languages but tcl really 'feels' like the command line. For
example, a typical command on a shell:

ps -a -u -x

and a typical tcl line:

glob -nocomplain

feels similar don't you think? I mean, basically, command line syntax
is very similar to tcl:

command option option option ...

and tcl basically adds the concept of grouping via {} and "". When I
introduce tcl to newbies, I always tell them to think of it as if you
are using the command line. That's the beauty of tcl's postfix syntax.
It's natural to anyone who have ever used a command line.

.

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