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IshKebabtoday at 9:25 AM3 repliesview on HN

> best thing about TCL is easy syntax and that everything is a string :)

What? That's the worst thing about TCL.


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iberatortoday at 9:49 AM

I love it. Living proof that languages doesn't need forced types.

Data is Data. It's kinda object programming as visioned in the 70".

So easy and trivial language.

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antireztoday at 11:19 AM

It depends on the use case. For instance you open a socket, write there any value you have without serialization, read it in the other side, data transfer done.

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bmachotoday at 10:35 AM

It's only the interface that is of a string. An array is a list of strings with space between, but only for the programmer. The runtime is free to use an actual array.

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