• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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      23 hours ago

      Also, Tcl (a cute little scripting language from the 90s, best known for giving the world the Tk UI toolkit; it was somewhat Lispy, only under the hood, worked like sh, where everything was a string).

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        18 hours ago

        more directly, sqlite was originally for tcl which is why they share the semantics.

        also I’d argue that sqlite is a bigger contribution than tk, but I suppose in a more roundabout way

      • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Does GNU make count? It’s crazy what you can do with the macro expressions, basically a Functional language using only string types. There’s even a math “library” that will do arithmetic with numbers in strings.