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Chicago Tribune: The TCL scripting language

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 1999

“Don’t worry, a tickle script doesn’t involve making others
laugh.”

“Tickle” is how programmers pronounce Tcl (Tool Command
Language), an open-source scripting language developed a bit more
than a decade ago by John Ousterhout, who now runs Scriptics, a
company he founded. Scriptics aims to entrench Tcl and its GUI
extension Tk (Tool Kit) in corporate development departments.”

“Like the scripting language Perl, Tcl has turned out to be a
great fit for IP and networking protocol work.”

“Tcl is used to develop many high-profile Web sites…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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