Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Tcl is often adapted to unusual environments such as routers.
- In plain terms
- Tcl ends up in odd places like networking gear.
- What can you take from it?
- Some languages are highly portable.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why choose a portable language over a specialized one?
Another view
Portability can introduce performance trade‑offs.
More from Larry Wall
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Permalink to quote #134 Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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