[ale] Tcl as a scripting language: 4/2/2025 7pm Eastern Standard time

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

Said with tongue-in-cheek:

If speed is an issue, get a faster CPU

md

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Hi Leam,
>
> Tcl has plenty of advantages, but speed isn't one of them. Its speed is
> about half that of Python's. If speed is an issue, LuaJIT, C, Rust etc
> are the best bet. The thing about Tcl is that because of its tiny
> syntax, you can do things with it you can't do with most other
> languages.
>
> SteveT
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:45:22 -0400
> Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > Cisco used to use it, not sure now. It is easier to read than Perl,
> > and probably faster than Python, given not everything an object.
> >
> > I used to do a lot of it; fun stuff!
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 08:40 Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> > > People still use TCL?
> > > It's not even installed by default on most systems these days.
> > > -derek
> > >
> > > On Mon, March 31, 2025 8:29 am, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Where: GoLUG: https://meet.jit.si/golug
> > > > When: Wednesday, 4/2/2025 7pm sharp Eastern Daylight time
> > > >       Arrive 15 minutes early for Microphone check & discussion
> > > > Who: David Billsbrough, veteran Linux admin and developer
> > > > What: Tcl as a scripting language
> > > >
> > > > If you're anything like me, you've always thought of Tcl as a
> > > > programming language, not a scripting language. And if you're
> > > > anything like me, you've looked at Tcl as a a competitor of
> > > > Python, Lua, Perl or Ruby, and preferred one of those. But when
> > > > David told me he's going to talk about Tcl for making
> > > > shellscripts, well, that's a horse of a different color. Will it
> > > > be as good as my beloved KSH plus Shellcheck? I'm going to this
> > > > meeting to find out, and hope to see you there.
> > > >
> > > > SteveT
> > > >
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