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When is using TCL the right choice? For example ruby is a good choice for building a web app and fortan is great for science. How is TCL typically used?
by gscho 6y ago
When is using TCL the right choice? For example ruby is a good choice for building a web app and fortan is great for science. How is TCL typically used?
- gscho 6y agoThe last paragraph answered my question: "Tcl continues to be heavily used as an embedded scripting language, a domain where it still seems to be the best alternative"
- monocasa 6y agoI've mainly see it used in HDL tooling to glue disparate tools together. That being said, it grew on me as a general scripting language kind of generally in the same space as Perl.
- pjmlp 6y agoIronically while Rails might have done the headlines for Ruby, almost a decade before, we were using many of the same ideas in AOLServer, Vignette, Safelayer (our own implementation back in the .com wave) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryServer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryServer So back in the early days of Apache and server modules, Tcl was a good option to build web applications. :)