Re: [naviserver-devel] hosting java-script server-side?

[Vlad S. <vl...@cr...>]

> 
> People are writing a lot of sucky Tcl for AOLserver.  Here's an
> example from a couple of days ago:
> 
> 
> proc startworker {name} {
>        nsv_set $name mutex [ns_mutex create]
>         nsv_set $name cond  [ns_cond create]
>        nsv_set $name queue {}
>        nsv_set $name tid [ns_thread begindetached [list workermain $name]]
> }
> 
> Jumping through hoops with low level mutexes and and variables etc.,
> you see it all the time.  Why can't we have code that looks like this?
> 
>     ns_serialize {
>         # Only one copy of this code runs at a time
>     }
> 
> 
> Which brings us back to nsproxy and handle management... :-)


You just showed that it is not Tcl sucks but a programmer that writes 
bad code in Tcl without using it properly or not in full. That example 
of your shows that programmer that wrote it has more experience in C and 
  uses Tcl in pure procedure way, which is not that bad, the code works.

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