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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Partition information as text file? |
| Date | 2019-02-02 17:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <xn6bo-Pi-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <xmJHP-3KN-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xmKue-4gL-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <xmRYJ-u2-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xn0fD-5qO-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xn5p0-j1-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 09:26:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 02 Feb 2019 at 10:58:09 (+0100), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:05:53PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 01 Feb 2019 at 11:07:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 02/01/2019 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > Interesting. I thought Tcl/Tk was for writing GUIs. ... > > > > > > > > *CAVEAT* LECTOR > > > > It is more like Tk being a GUI interface for Tcl. > > > > > > Sure, and for several other languages, but I assume you wouldn't want > > > a GUI interface for your text-producing script even if you write it > > > in Tcl. > > > > Tcl still makes for a reasonable scripting language. It's just a bit > > different of most "modern" languages (except perhaps shell), so for > > Perlies and Pythoners and PHPers it takes some "getting used" to. > > > > But it is pretty powerful. > > Yes, I remember Tkinter's thinness overlying it: it would occasionally > be necessary to tickle the Tcl to get precisely what you wanted. > > But as for being different, I've found nothing to approach Spitbol > (a superior implementation of Snobol, which I ran on IBM 370s in the > '70s and '80s and then on Vaxen into the mid-'90s). Fortunately > when it fell by the wayside, I found Perl, with its associative > arrays, and even an implementation of Perl on DOS, which kept me > going until I started using Python on linux in late '95. Yes, Snobol and its family was pretty interesting. FWIW, Tcl has gained associative arrays. Cheers -- tomás
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Re: Partition information as text file? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-26 18:10 +0100
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Re: Partition information as text file? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-01-29 17:20 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-01-31 15:20 +0100
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Re: Partition information as text file? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-01 16:10 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-01 16:30 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-01 17:10 +0100
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Re: Partition information as text file? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-02 02:10 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-02 11:00 +0100
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Re: Partition information as text file? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-01 19:30 +0100
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Re: Partition information as text file? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-01-29 15:40 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-29 21:10 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-01-30 16:10 +0100
Re: Partition information as text file? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-30 17:00 +0100
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