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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago (21 children)
[–] asperan@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It is also the bash approach, isn't it?!

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, Tcl (a cute little scripting language from the 90s, best known for giving the world the Tk UI toolkit; it was somewhat Lispy, only under the hood, worked like sh, where everything was a string).

Does GNU make count? It's crazy what you can do with the macro expressions, basically a Functional language using only string types. There's even a math "library" that will do arithmetic with numbers in strings.

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