TCL

Tool Command Language
Tcl

   <language> /tik*l/ (Tcl) An interpreted string processing
   language for issuing commands to {interactive} programs,
   developed by {John Ousterhout} at {UCB}.  Each {application
   program} can extend tcl with its own set of commands.

   Tcl is like a text-oriented {Lisp}, but lets you write
   algebraic expressions for simplicity and to avoid scaring
   people away.  Though originally designed to be a "scripting
   language" rather than for serious programming, Tcl has been
   used successfully for programs with hundreds of thousands of
   lines.

   It has a peculiar but simple {syntax}.  It may be used as an
   embedded {interpreter} in application programs.  It has
   {exceptions} and {packages} (called libraries), {name-spaces}
   for {procedures} and {variables}, and provide/require.  It
   supports {dynamic loading} of {object code}.  It is {eight-bit
   clean}.  It has only three variable types: strings, lists and
   {associative arrays} but no {structures}.

   Tcl and its associated {GUI} {toolkit}, {Tk} run on all
   flavors of {Unix}, {Microsoft Windows}, {Macintosh} and {VMS}.
   Tcl runs on the {Amiga} and many other {platforms}.

   Latest version: 8.0.3, as of 1998-09-25.

   See also {expect} (control interactive programs and pattern
   match on their output), {Cygnus Tcl Tools}, {[incr Tcl]} (adds
   classes and inheritence to Tcl), {Scriptics} (John
   Ousterhout's company that is the home of Tcl development and
   the TclPro tool suite), {Tcl Consortium} (a non-profit agency
   dedicated to promoting Tcl), {tclhttpd} (an embeddable
   Tcl-based web server), {tclx} (adds many commands to Tcl),
   {tcl-debug}.

   comp.lang.tcl FAQ at MIT
   (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/tcl-faq/).
   or at purl.org (http://purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/).

   Scriptics downloads
   (http://scriptics.com/software/download.html).
   Kanji (ftp://srawgw.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/jp/).

   Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce,
   news:comp.lang.tcl.

   ["Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language", J. Ousterhout, Proc
   1990 Winter USENIX Conf].

   (1998-11-27)
    

TCL
       Tool Command Language