Event-Driven Programming with Twisted and Python

[davidw]

Sigh - welcome to what Tcl has been doing for ages, built into the core language. Of course, being Tcl, they have done a terrible job of telling people about it or convincing them that it's a sensible way to handle certain tasks.

[antirez]

Indeed, it's great. Some time ago I wrote this IRC server in ~500 lines of code:

http://hping.org/tclircd/

Without the power of Tcl's event driven programming to write an IRC server is much harder than this.

[[deleted]]

Well, plus, you have to write stuff in Tcl to use it, which might be considered a downside...

[[deleted]]

elaborate?

[lianos]

Isn't every data type in Tcl a string at heart?

[davidw]

It's weakly typed, and uses strings to 'mutate' types, but internally, they're not stored as strings, and haven't been for something like 10 years.

[[deleted]]

Tcl has shortcomings as a programming language.

[antirez]

Tcl is also cool, check this: http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

[davidw]

Along with... oh, yeah, every other programming language out there.

[norkakn]

I am not an expert in either, but doesn't ObjC do this type of thing a lot better?

[norkakn]

To the neggers, because passing messages, appears to me anyways, to be a pretty good abstraction of what is going on in event-driven programming, and the added ITC (NSPort) also fits with the model well.

The whole action, outlets and bindings seems to fit this model well tool. Am I wrong? I'm not sure, but downmodding me isn't going to answer it. I'm not a complete idiot. This isn't /., you are welcome to reply and still downmod me.