alt Hacker News> Living proof that languages doesn't need forced types.
The opposite surely? TCL is practically dead, and only lingers on in the EDA industry (which has zero taste). Virtually every successful language today has at least a few different basic types for numbers, arrays, strings, maps and so on.
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bmacho • yesterday at 12:48 PM
Tcl has these types as well. They are special strings.
Number: string of digits. List: strings separated by space. Dictionary: key value pairs in a list.
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isr • yesterday at 10:01 PM
Well, if you use flightaware to track flights, you're using tcl. The vast majority of their codebase is in tcl.
TCL's typicing discipline comes from shell languages and awk, which are decidedly not dead. The overwhelming majority of programmers have less than no taste, so language usage rates in general don't really mean much.