Tcl Maintenance
Tcl
KindProgramming language
Appeared1988
StatusMaintenance
CreatorJohn Ousterhout
FamilyIndependent
Sourcewww.tcl.tk ↗
The embeddable tool command language — everything is a string, Tk made it famous, and EDA tools still can't quit it.
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Created by John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout's Tcl (1988) — Tool Command Language — was designed to be embedded: a tiny string-based language plus Tk, the first cross-platform GUI toolkit.\n\nExpect made it famous; it remains embedded in EDA tools, test systems, and every Cisco router.