[GoLUG] Yet another language (older)

[Kyle Terrien]

On 8/20/24 00:35, David Billsbrough wrote:
> The 'next' language that I thought I might be able to get back to learn:  Tcl
> 
> So ... in a little less than 3 days.
> 
> The same program as before and the conversion is archived here:
> 
>     https://github.com/kc4zvw/time_test_sample/tree/main
> 
> The language really likes to work with *strings* and the 'art' was to eval
> variables to be a (integer) number.

If you are going to play with Tcl, then check out Expect.  Expect is a 
tool used to automate interactive terminal applications.  I still use it 
occasionally to automate overly chatty command line applications.

https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

Also, Tk came from Tcl originally.

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