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An [Acronym] for __T__ool __C__ommand __L__anguage.

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.)

Tcl is included with most if not all Unix-like platforms. Its common combination with the [Tk] ToolKit makes creating [GUI]s fairly easy.

It has also a standalone interpreter like [Perl], [Python] and [Ruby] but isn't as popular. Nevertheless, those other interpreters include a modified form of the [Tk] ToolKit library for graphics programming.

See also:
* The Tcl community is working on the official [Tcl Tutorial | http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html]
* [Tcl Developer Xchange | http://www.tcl.tk/]
* [The Tcler's wiki | http://wiki.tcl.tk/], a very useful resource on [TCL].
* [The Tcl newsgroup | http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl?hl=en]
* [Tclwise | http://www.invece.org/tclwise/], a partially online book about [TCL] that might be a little difficult for newcomers to understand
* tclsh(1)
* tclsh8.3(1)
* wish(1)
* wish8.3(1)
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CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryVeryHighLevelProgrammingLanguages

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