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{{language|Tcl}}'''Tcl''' (short for '''T'''ool '''C'''ommand '''L'''anguage) is a scripting language with very simple syntax, dynamic typing, automatic storage allocation and [[garbage collection]] and native Unicode support.
'''Tcl''' is often combined with the [[Tk]] library. As a result, it is often referred to as '''Tcl/Tk'''.
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The Tcl language has been implemented in multiple lower-level languages. The most common one is '''[[libtcl]]''', written in [[C]], which is the engine used to power [[tclsh]] and [[wish]], but others exist. Notably, these include [[Jacl]] and [[Eagle]], which implement Tcl in [[Java]] and [[C sharp|C#]] respectively.
It's creator, John Ousterhout, wrote about it:
:“I got the idea for Tcl while on sabbatical leave at DEC's Western Research Laboratory in the fall of 1987. I started actually implementing it when I got back to Berkeley in the spring of 1988; by summer of that year it was in use in some internal applications of ours, but there was no Tk. The first external releases of Tcl were in 1989, I believe. I started implementing Tk in 1989, and the first release of Tk was in 1991.”
==External Links==
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