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Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
In an article recently linked from reddit entitled Tour de Babel you can read (among lots of other nonsense): Heck, people still use Tcl as an embedded interpreter, even though Python is far superior to Tcl in every conceivable way -- except, that is, for the frost thing. Ok, the whole article is well..
Instead, things work in a different way: in order to make Tcl more friendly there is a command taking infix math expressions as argument and evaluating them. where the while command takes two arguments - the first string being evaluated as an expr ession to check if it's true at every iteration, and the second eval uated itself each time. If you are a Lisp programmer you know how beautiful is to have a flexible data structure like the list everywhere in your programs, especially when the literal is as simple as "foo bar 3 4 5 6" in most cases.
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