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-Acronym for __T__CL
__C__ommand __L__anguage. A scripting language embedded in many applications. Comparible to [Elisp] in [Emacs] and [VisualBasic] in [MicrosoftWindows] applications
.
+An [
Acronym]
for __T__ool
__C__ommand __L__anguage.
-Often
used in association with the tk graphics library
.
+It is a scripting language embedded in many applications, much like [Elisp] is
used in [Emacs] and [VisualBasic] is in many [MicrosoftWindows] applications. (This does not mean these languages have anything in common; actually they're about as far apart from each other as imaginably possible
.)
-See also
tclsh(1), tclsh8.3(1), wish(1), wish8.3(1)
+While not well suited for writing large programs, its common combination with the Tk ToolKit makes creating [GUI]s fairly easy - the VisualBasic of the Unix world, if you will.
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+Most people would probably consider it obsolete; the dwindling popularity of [Tk] only contributes to this. [Perl], [Python] and [Ruby] are all far preferrable.
+
+
See tclsh(1), tclsh8.3(1), wish(1), wish8.3(1)
+
+----
+CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryVeryHighLevelProgrammingLanguages
