> *You need a language that is small yet still complete. Even today, the only la...

bsder · 2024-09-27T04:47:37.000000Z

Tcl was 1988. Lua was 1993.

Lua is quite a bit larger than Tcl. In addition, no two Lua installations can ever agree on which modules they require (which makes the actual Lua binary even bigger).

fullstop · 2024-09-27T13:22:02.000000Z

Larger? On my system libtcl8.6.so is 1.7 megabytes and liblua5.1.so is 192 kilobytes. It's not even close. Lua uses libraries / modules based on where you tell the interpreter they are located, so that's on you.

Set package.path and package.cpath correctly.

bsder · 2024-09-27T21:30:47.000000Z

You are comparing 2024 versions.

Go find the original tarball versions from 1990 (maybe you have to go to Usenet sources!). Tcl was small.

fullstop · 2024-09-27T21:37:16.000000Z

Ah, you used "is" and not "was" in your original post.

I wonder if TCL 2.1 will compile with modern gcc?

bsder · 2024-09-28T00:43:00.000000Z

That would probably be painful. It's old-style C.

Better to start with Jim Tcl or Picol.

Even something like Tiny Tcl would be a better start (I think it fit in 64K).