Tcl

Tcl

Paradigm	multi-paradigm: object-oriented, functional, procedural, event-driven programming, imperative
Designed by	John Ousterhout
Developer	Tcl Core Team
First appeared	1988; 37 years ago (1988)
Stable release	8.6.8 (Dec, 22 2017) / December 22, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-12-22)
Typing discipline	dynamic typing, everything can be treated as a string
License	BSD-style[1]
Filename extensions	.tcl, .tbc[2]
Website	www.tcl.tk
Major implementations
ActiveTcl Androwish
Dialects
Jim
Influenced by
AWK, Lisp
Influenced
PHP,[3] Tea, PowerShell[4]

Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or tee cee ell /ˈtiː siː ɛl/) or Tool Command Language is a High-level programming language which can be used for many things. Tcl was made to be easy to use, but able to do many things.^[5] Tcl's language is based on commands which tell the computer what to do or how to save a variable. Tcl is able to do object-oriented, imperative, functional, or procedural styles.

Tcl is used a lot to in C to create prototypes quickly.^[6] There are interpreters available for many operating systems. This means many different kinds of computers are able to run Tcl code. Tcl is a very small language which means it is good to use as embedded systems.

Tcl is sometimes combined with Tk. When it is, it is called Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk is a part of the normal Python installation.

1. ↑ "Tcl/Tk License Terms". Tcl Developer Xchange. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
2. ↑ "Tcl Dev Kit - Compiler". ActiveState Docs. Archived from the original on 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
3. ↑ Lerdorf, Rasmus (2007-04-26). "PHP on Hormones – history of PHP presentation by Rasmus Lerdorf given at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, California". The Conversations Network. Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
4. ↑ "Windows PowerShell : PowerShell and WPF: WTF". Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
5. ↑ "Language". Tcl Developer Xchange. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
6. ↑ "Uses for Tcl/Tk". Tcl Developer Xchange. Retrieved 2016-11-02.