Dear Sean,

In message <8bbdb7a1-5085-a3b7-614f-12ae9aee8...@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > For a partial list, see
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/Forty-Bot/lil/commits/master
>
> Whoops, looks like I completely misread what you were asking here. I
> don't have an exhaustive list of differences, but here are some similar
> things expressed in both languages:
>
> sh                            tcl
>
> foo=bar                               set foo bar
> echo $foo                     echo $foo
>
> if [ 1 -gt 2 ]; then          if {1 > 2} {
>       echo a                          echo a
> else                          } {
>       echo b                          echo b
> fi                            }
>
> foo() {                               proc foo {first second} {
>       echo $1 $2                      echo $first $second
> }                             }
>
> for file in $(ls *.c); do     foreach file [glob *.c] {
>       echo $file                      echo $file
> done                          }
>
> fact() {
>       if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
>               echo 1
>       else
>               echo $(($1 * $(fact $(($1 - 1)))))
>       fi
> }
>
>                               proc fact {n} {
>                                       if {$n} {
>                                               expr {$n * [fact [expr {$n - 
> 1}]]}
>                                       } {
>                                               return 1
>                                       }
>                               }
>
> Hopefully this gives you a bit of a feel for the basic differences.

Well, I know TCL, and there has been a zillion of reasons to move
_from_ that language many, many years ago.  Intoducing this as new
"shell" language in U-Boot does not look attractive to me.
Actually, it gives me the creeps.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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