“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…”