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It was a perfect language for the web in a lot of ways. With some other guys, I made an Apache module that let you do PHP type scripts, back in the day: https:/
by davidw 7y ago
It was a perfect language for the web in a lot of ways. With some other guys, I made an Apache module that let you do PHP type scripts, back in the day: https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/
For a while, I know that https://flightaware.com/ https://flightaware.com/ used it fairly heavily. Indeed, their careers page still shows an interest in Tcl skills.
- rwmj 7y agoFamously Ars Digita, founded by Philip Greenspun, started out using AOLserver and Tcl to design websites. The company wrote what I suppose would now be called a "middleware stack". After he sold the company to Red Hat I worked there really briefly. Apparently half the sales fell through because Tcl wasn't regarded as "enterprisey" enough for customers (note the customers themselves would probably never write a line of code). There was an attempt to rewrite the entire engine in Java — it being 2002 — which limped along for a while before the project died. But there's more! The original Tcl stack was open sourced and continues to this day as OpenACS (https://openacs.org/ https://openacs.org/). The Java rewrite also still exists (https://svnlegacy.ow2.org/byline/ https://svnlegacy.ow2.org/byline/) but has been dead 15+ years, and just digging into those 7 level deep directories rekindles a feeling of dread in me.
- shanemhansen 7y agoI learned web development using openacs around 2005. I got alot of value out of the experience. ad_proc and online documentation was awesome. I also had to figure many things out from first principles because documentation was all for PHP and Apache, not aolserver and tcl.