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picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

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Summary

Picol is a Tcl-alike interpreter implemented in about 500 lines of C code, designed as an educational example of building a simple scripting language. It demonstrates a hand-written parser, interpolation, and basic language features (variables, procedures, control flow) with runnable examples.

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