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Magicsplat
Personal blog · magicsplat.com/blogprogramming
Magicsplat is a personal blog at magicsplat.com about programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for Tcl material: the book The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide, and posts on Tcl metaprogramming such as the meta-html article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to magicsplat
Most-linked posts?
- The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-03
- Making promises in Tcl2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Strong support for metaprogramming techniques is one of the underappreciated features of Tcl - see https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Meta+Programming and https://www.magicsplat.com/blog/meta-html/ .
Comment linking /blog/meta-html/
on “What is a programmable programming language? (2019)”Submitted The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition) as a story · 134 points
HN discussionThis is the latest book on Tcl (does not cover Tk) by one of the active members of Tcl community. The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide: https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html
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on “Tcl/Tk Spline Editor”Submitted Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI highly recommend The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide: https://www.magicsplat.com/ttpl/index.html For those who are not aware, Tcl is actually part of standard Python distribution through TKinter. There are many things Tcl has built in that are quite amazing, like a robust virtual filesystem support, reflective channels, and less known these days Starpacks (stand alone runtime) that bundle sources w…
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on “Closures in Tcl”Submitted Topics in Tcl Programming as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object Oriented Programming in Tcl as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Bluetooth with Tcl as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making promises in Tcl as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Driving libzip with Tcl's CFFI package as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tcl 8.7 Part 8: TclOO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Tcl internals from script as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises in Tcl, now with async/await as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing God on Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making promises in Tcl as a story · 1 points
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