▲ 545 ▼ Stringly typed (programming.dev) submitted 1 year ago by sus@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] asperan@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (5 children) It is also the bash approach, isn't it?! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago (2 children) 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). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brian@programming.dev 7 points 1 year 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You can calculate n and n? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago 28 That's easy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago (2 children) 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). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brian@programming.dev 7 points 1 year 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brian@programming.dev 7 points 1 year 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You can calculate n and n? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago 28 That's easy permalink fedilink source parent
