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Stringly typed (programming.dev)

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 month ago

Ah, the SQLite approach!

[-] asperan@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

It is also the bash approach, isn't it?!

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago

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).

[-] brian@programming.dev 7 points 1 month 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

[-] ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month 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.