Notices tagged with tcl

Answers to the above questions per #tcl on libera:

- Type compatibility in tcl can be tested with [string is …]. "Actual" (interpreter level) type is apparently not exposed. https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/string.htm#M10

- Strings can be concatenated with [string cat …].

- Arrays are "weird"; they live in a single scope and can't be exported or passed to a function except by breaking things with "upvar". Additionally, dicts are ordered. "arrays" feel like an old version of "dicts" and I think I intend to avoid them

Look No Further, These Are the Best Cyber Monday TV Deals

#CyberMonday #Sony #TCL #Savemoney #TVDeals

https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/tech/a63069189/cyber-monday-tv-deals-2024/

The more I use #TCL/Tk the more I would like to replace
Links or similar with BFG https://codeberg.org/luxferre/BFG
for Gopher/Gemini and HV3 for web browsing.
HV3 looks like a nice "competing" browser for the
current #Dillo. It's good to have alternatives.

Also, TKDiff looks far more featured than MGDiff.
Performance issues? Maybe on a 486, a current n270 Atom
flies with EMWM.

"Saying this looks like garbage would be an insult to garbage.”

TCL prepares to release "the first AI-powered love story”

https://www.engadget.com/tcls-first-original-movie-is-an-absurd-looking-ai-generated-love-story-154142740.html

#AI #TV #RomComs #TCL #Movies

What if… #NixOS used #Tcl instead of #Bash?

I present you tcl-stdenv!

Previously

@nixos @tcl @tcltk @tcl @tcl

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. #Tcl would be a really good #NixOS builder language.

• Incredibly portable
• Easily bootstrappable
• Like bash but without many of its pitfalls
• Like lisp but with an arguably cleaner and more familiar syntax

There are also disadvantages, but you can probably count on one hand programming languages that are suited for the task.

@wamserma

RE: https://cdrom.tokyo/objects/6c88a7dc-52bd-4481-879d-78e34dc58b14

@raito @tcltk @clacke @nixos I’ve been planning to try this since forever and I’ve been slowly packaging stuff to that end. #Nix and #Tcl would go so well together!

The #nushell talk at #NixCon reminded me of this again, but my list of ongoing side projects is a little too big at the moment 😅. Still, if anyone is working on it please let me know!

(sorry for the necropost, I just found the thread by browsing tags)

One field of use for #tcl that I think people might find surprising is that it mixes well with #nix , at least to me.

Tcl in #nixos has few dependencies, so you can use it for miscellaneous scripts without feeling bad about it.

When doing Nix stuff you can easily get into a few layers of quoting, something Tcl's syntax handles better than the shell code people instinctively reach for.

Tcl excels at orchestrating and composing system commands, again a typical Nix concern.

Finally, even though the programming model could be said to be the inverse of functional programming, on a superficial level I think Nix code and Tcl have a shared aesthetic, they just look good together. 😃

@tcltk @tcl @nixos

#Tk is the #GUI extension for #Tcl which allows rapid GUI (graphical user interface) development with a native look and feel, often accomplishing to make a GUI application in half the size of competing GUI frameworks or even less. #TclTk is either pronounced as "tickle teak" or as an initialism, as with Tcl. Tcl/Tk is shipped as the default GUI framework in #Python in the form of #Tkinter with an active user base.

(3/🧵)

Another attractive reason for using #Tcl is the large and helpful community of Tcl users and developers. The Tcl community is a constant source of ideas, free extensions, applications, and technical support.

Finally, Tcl is #OpenSource — freely available, meaning you can do anything you want with it, including modifying it to suit your own needs or incorporating it into commercial products, no strings attached.

Start using #TclTk now!

(14/🧵)

#Tcl (also known as Tool Command Language; pronounced as either "tickle" or as an initialism) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

It was made in 1988 by John Ousterhout and it was inspired mainly by #C, #Lisp, #Shell, #Awk and has served as one of the inspirations of #PowerShell and #Python due to its simplicity and elegance.

(1/🧵)

This is ported over from my old qoto.org instance (and shortened... no 65K char limit luxury here). I used to be @alecui

#introduction #intro #introductions

Hi! o/

I am Ștefan (ș as sh, I also accept Stephan or the equivalent in your language). I’m 21 years old, ♑, he/him, proud #leftist and soon to graduate CS @ UVABc. Sort of proudly living in #romania. My native language is Romanian, fairly proficient at English, slowly learning #finnish (and #italian).

Tried a lot of programming languages in my childhood up until now, a non-chronological list of ones that stuck with me for one reason or another being: VB6 (that’s what I started on at 8 years old), #pascal (+ #freepascal and #delphi), #perl (+ #raku), #tcl #tcltk, #lisp (usually #scheme, on a good day #elisp #emacslisp and #commonlisp), #elixir, #php, #forth, #lua, #oberon, #modula-2, #cpp #c++, #ocaml, #fsharp, #smalltalk (+ #squeak #pharo #self), #ada, #powershell, #dart, #matlab, #rlang, #zig, #nim, #cobol and #julia. I’m flexible in learning new languages and technologies if needed.

I also do #sudoku and #math for fun (especially functional equations and number theory problems, sometimes calculus and geometric algebra). I am interested in #linguists, #conlangs (#lojban and #esperanto) and #nlp, contemporary (post-‘45, usually post-‘89 for me) history, #balkan history, lower-level stuff (I like to learn about how tools around me work, I’m most interested in #compilers, #emulators and #microcontrollers), #typography and #texlatex, #linux + #bsd, #msdos, #amiga, #oberon, #plan9, #philosophy, #astronomy (especially in a worldbuilding context) and #philosophy, along with other less notable interests.

Nazis and fascists can have a merry fuck off, DNI with me. I am also a spiritual person, a #deist and I find #astrology and #tarot interesting.

I hope I'm welcome here!