15 Apr
2020
15 Apr
'20
10:24 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
You and I would get along great. I *hate* tcl, love
tk. I hate tcl so
much that I paid some guys to create a C-like language that compiles
down to tcl byte codes. It is quite pleasant IMHO, has some perl stuff
too.
Woo-hoo! I hate TCL but love Perl/Tk and am using it for a simple Gooey
front-end for some scripts that I have. I mean, about a page to write a
simple "Hello, world" in X11? That BTW is my benchmark for any language;
not only does it demonstrate its complexity but also its fundamental
structure, and I'm very much a learn-by-example person (it's something
weird in my brain that I can pick up a new language just by seeing a few
examples of it).
Number of programming languages I've used over 50 years:
aneurin% wc -l ~/languages
48 /home/dave/languages
And that's counting all assembly languages as one, etc; 360, PDP-8,
PDP-11, Z-80, VAX, 2650, Intel... Currently looking at ARM for something
or other. I collect programming languages like some people collect
stamps.
I was also pretty good at French in school :-)
-- Dave