<div dir="ltr">Yeah, I think tcl is one of the things that confounds people the most. Not really learned that much anymore. I learned it long ago for CAD tools from IBM.<div><br></div><div>But really, both Homebrew and Macports are domain specific languages from the port writers perspective. You've got to learn it anyway. People in my CS department lab would go to Homebrew first and then come ask me how to install MacPorts since we have much better package selection. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>For instance: "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">If I type </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;margin:0px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;max-width:100%;display:inline-block;overflow:auto;vertical-align:middle;line-height:1.3;padding:0px;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">brew search tex</code><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">, it recommends installing MacTex instead of a from-source install." LAME.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">Mark</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Daniel J. Luke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dluke@geeklair.net" target="_blank">dluke@geeklair.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Mar 18, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:54, Daniel J. Luke <<a href="mailto:dluke@geeklair.net">dluke@geeklair.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> GitHub plus not having to learn/use tcl seem to be the major features that pull people/create interest from what I've seen (but I haven't looked in on it in a while).<br>
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> …right, instead of you have to learn/use ruby. Six of one…<br>
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</div>'ruby' has been pretty hot for a while and 'tcl' (and perl, and php) is considered lame.<br>
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(note that I'm not saying I personally agree with that assessment).<br>
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