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Agreed, my only exposure to Tcl was writing IRC scripts for bots and I have nothing but fond memories of the experience.

Same. Such a simple life writing text-only event handlers.

I also wrote TCL scripts for a IRC client in the 90s, and it was awesome. For that purpose the language was awesome. On the other hand, my other language at that time was x86 assembly so I didnt require much to be awed I guess!

>I call it Lisp for humans.

Except for upvar.

What's upvar? :-)

Nothing much, what about you?

CMake similarly is sick in the head: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.30/command/set.html#normal (heh, I enjoy that the documentation anchor is "normal" for SET(FOO BAR PARENT_SCOPE)

Well, CMake's problem is more the lack of return value for functions than anything, making "upvar" ubiquitous.