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minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoAlso, 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).
minus-squarebrian@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agomore 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
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).
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