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   smlckz (smlckz@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:50:41 JST smlckz
   Me: arguing about Lisp and Forth systems..
   Meanwhile in Tcl: Interpreters supported as built-in features: https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/interp.htm
   As in: interp — Create and manipulate Tcl interpreters
   SYNOPSIS
   interp subcommand ?arg arg ...?
   DESCRIPTION
   This command makes it possible to create one or more new Tcl interpreters that co-exist with the creating interpreter in the same application.
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   Me: ...
   
   Which programming languages have anything like this?
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:50:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @smlckz Lisp?

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 00:05:43 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @smlckz most Lisp EVAL have a extra variable for the environment.

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     smlckz (smlckz@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 00:05:44 JST smlckz

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt
     @amszmidt Not quite built-in like in Tcl, I think.. "Each interpreter is independent from the others: it has its own name space for commands, procedures, and global variables." However, Common Lisp packages can be used to simulate this to some degree...